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From:	Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:	Re: About cygstart in Cygwin64
Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:56:59 -0700
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On 8/26/2014 3:24 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> When I had WinXP32 and Cygwin32, I defined an alias (in .bashrc) like this
>
>    alias cygstart='TEMP=/home/$USER/Temp cygstart'
>
> where /home/$USER/Temp was a symlink to the user native Temp directory
> (/cygdrive/c/Documents and Setting/Local/Temp, if I remember..)

Here's what I do - use Cygwin's tmp (i.e. /tmp in Cygwin and 
C:\Cygwin\tmp for Windows). Then change the TEMP and TMP environment 
variables to point to C:\Cygwin\tmp. Then simply think of "temp" as /tmp.


> The reasons for that alias with TEMP=/home.. in front, were that,
> opening documents with Windows native applications (for example, a PDF
> with AR), all temporary files that those applications created were saved
> in the Windows native Temp directory. And all this worked..
>
> Now with Win7U and Cygwin64 I defined a similar alias, being
> /home/$USER/Temp the symlink
>
>    /home/$USER/Temp --> /cygdrive/c/$USER/AppData/Local/Temp
>
> In this case, all temporary files created by Windows native
> applications, started with cygstart, go in /tmp Cygwin directory.., i.e.
> the definition "TEMP=/home/$USER/Temp" in front of cygstart command is
> ignored..
>
> This is a minor issue but I wonder if there is a way to avoid it.

Any self respecting Windows app should honor either $TMP or $TEMP. Non 
self respecting Windows apps should be uninstalled ;-)
-- 
Andrew DeFaria
http://defaria.com


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