Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:24:00 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: gnuplot won't work with new net release Message-ID: <20000420142400.P1059@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <200004200304.XAA18051@kahn.localnet.com>; <20000419234942.A17835@cygnus.com> <200004200651.CAA14943@kahn.localnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <200004200651.CAA14943@kahn.localnet.com>; from tomcw@localnet.com on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:51:56AM -0700 On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:51:56AM -0700, Tom Weichmann wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:04:42PM -0700, Tom Weichmann wrote: >> > I am running octave 2.0.13 on the cygwin platform. Octave >> >saves its plot data to a temp file, then points gnuplot to that file >> >in order to plot it. The problem is that gnuplot only understands >> >directories in the c:/tmp form and octave understands //c/tmp. In >> >B20.1 I set an environment variable TMPDIR to c:/tmp, and both >> >programs liked it. The new net release translates this environment >> >variable to /cygdrive/c/tmp/, and gnuplot can not understand it. Is >> >there any way to keep cygwin from making this translation? Any other >> >ideas? >> >> TMPDIR is being translated so that UNIXy things which rely on it, like >> configure will work correctly. >> >> What happens if you just don't set the environment variable at all? >> Does that work any better? >> >> cgf > > By not setting the TMPDIR variable gnuplot tries to look in /tmp >for the data files it uses, but of course gnuplot can't understand >/tmp so it can not find the file it is looking for. /tmp is a valid Windows directory. It refers the tmp directory on the root of the current drive. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com