Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20000806110522.8647.qmail@web5505.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 04:05:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Bobby McNulty Junior Subject: Re: the direcectory named TEMP or TMP To: cygwin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii OK. I thought I had to create it, but looking at the cygwin dirctory, there was tmp. Thanks, Corrina. --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Bobby McNulty Junior wrote: > > > > Do you still have to have a TEMP directory before > > starting Cygwin? > > I read the docs(outdated) and it gave the > information > > about a TEMP directory. > > Bobby > > Cygwin itself doesn't need /tmp (nor does it ever > need it) but many > UNIX tools need it. Bash for example still warns the > user if it can't > find /tmp. > > However, if you use the current setup tool, it > creates /tmp by itself. > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails > regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer > mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com > Red Hat, Inc. > mailto:vinschen AT cygnus DOT com > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to > cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > ===== It was the the Best Of Times, it was the worst of times Message, Spock? Non that I'm concious of, except, of course, Happy Birthday. Kirk and Spock in Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan May 1982 Robert McNulty Junior (C) 2000 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com