Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:40:06 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: TEMP Environment Variable Changed Format After Cygwin Update Today
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On Jan 18 14:51, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> After updating to the latest Cygwin release, I'm having problems with
> MSVC, which I use everyday.  The problem seems to be that the TEMP
> environment variable is now translated to UNIX format
> (/cygdrive/C/DOCUME~1/gao_w/LOCALS~1/Temp) instead of Windows format
> (C:\DOCUME~1\gao_w\LOCALS~1\Temp).  And Visual Studio only understands
> the Windows format.
> 
> This started to happen after I updated to the latest Cygwin release
> and rebooted today.
> 
> So my questions for today are:
>   Is the new cygwin release the reason for the changed behavior?

The TEMP handling hasn't been changed for a long time.  Also, if I run
tcsh and then start a cmd shell, the handling of TEMP looks correct to
me:

  tcsh$ echo $TEMP
  /home/corinna/tmp
  tcsh$ cmd
  Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
  (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

  C:\home\corinna>echo %TEMP%
  echo %TEMP%
  C:\home\corinna\tmp


Corinna

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