X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <468CD592.8070905@byu.net> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:27:14 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au Subject: Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'. References: <7634A226C4C245868140309A0F3A952F@desktop2> <2kap83p6s5819lu66sr6kmrem6o5iqm180@4ax.com> <56E5E10621694E4A860212458ECD1E1C@desktop2> In-Reply-To: <56E5E10621694E4A860212458ECD1E1C@desktop2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Sisyphus on 7/5/2007 3:15 AM: > Yep - that fixes it. Both TEMP and TMP were set, but not TMPDIR. > > How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't have > to do it every time I open a new shell ? I tried editing etc/profile (in > wordpad) Multiple options: 1) set it in the Windows environment (for example, win-pause, advanced tab, environment variables, then add a new user variable) 2) use an editor that doesn't munge line endings (cygwin has the option of emacs, vi, ...) 3) use the shell, since the edit is trivial: $ echo 'export TMPDIR=/path/to/where/you/want/it' >> ~/.bash_profile - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGjNWS84KuGfSFAYARAkl7AJ41aB6maAYtpJWGbk10ohtFQrUsnwCeOvgj T+b+B8NupQOU4HQS//ZQIJY= =fS6H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/