From:	snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: how to make bash.exe standalone
Date:	Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:01:34 GMT
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Jens Berger <jberger AT gmx DOT net> wrote:

>    When I copy the related .exe files to a separate directory and do
>not set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV and remove DJGPP  from the path I got
>the error message:
>
>chbar.sh: Can't make pipes for command substitution!
>chbar.sh: cannot duplicate fd 11 to fd 0: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
>

Bash emulates pipes using temporary files, and it uses the environment
variable TMPDIR to point it to the directory where these files are to be
created. Set TMPDIR to an existing directory (like c:\temp or c:\tmp, etc.)
and the message will go away.

Mark
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