From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: More TMP dir ?
Date:	7 May 2001 10:12:35 GMT
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Nur Nurani <nur DOT nurani AT freenet DOT de> wrote:
> REM beginning of autoexec.bat
> IF exist e:\tmp SET PATH=e:\tmp

Pardon the French, but this is nonsense. Setting PATH to a temp directory
doesn't help a bit (it actually is a risky thing to do). You should set
TMPDIR, not PATH. 
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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