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Date:	Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:43:57 -0400
To:	Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: temp directory handling in Cygwin (bash/zsh)
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At 12:31 PM 6/12/2004, you wrote:
>Is there a change in the handling of the $TMP directory in recent
>Cywin?! I never set this environment variable in my .zshrc or .bashrc
>and nevertheless it alway pointed to /tmp (or at at least all Cygwin
>applications I used created their temp files in /tmp. Now I noticed
>that $TMP points to /cygdrive/c/DOKUME~1/thorsten/LOKALE~1/Temp and
>some apps fail because of that (for instance "rebaseall").


Windows points "TMP" to the path you specify by default.

I've always reset "TMP" and "TEMP" in my Windows environment.


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