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From: "Tom Weichmann" <tomcw AT localnet DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:51:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: gnuplot won't work with new net release
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References: <200004200304 DOT XAA18051 AT kahn DOT localnet DOT com>; from tomcw AT localnet DOT com on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:04:42PM -0700
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> 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.


Tom Weichmann

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