Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/03/09/17:21:07
mike friedrichs wrote:
>
> sorry it took so long to reply. my employer sent me out of country for a
> while.
>
> but, i created tmp directories in all of my drives, works ok now. still
> having problems understanding why tmp directories have to be created in all
> drives.
>
They don't. You should instead set the TMPDIR variable so it points to a
particular disk. That is, use something like TMPDIR=c:/tmp instead of
TMPDIR=/tmp.
> > > TMPDIR=/tmp
> > > export CVSROOT EDITOR CDPATH TMPDIR
> >
> > That's your problem, right there: TMPDIR is set to "/tmp". If you
> > don't have "/tmp" on each and every drive on your system, pipes and
> > other commands which use temporary files won't work.
I think Eli was trying to tell you to change the line in the startup
file rather than telling you to put /tmp directories everywhere. That
would be murder to arrange for all floppies, for example.
--
Dan Luecking Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu University of Arkansas
http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/ Fayetteville, AR 72101
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