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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:49:31 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: Chuck DOT Irvine AT mail DOT sprint DOT com
cc: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: ^M diff  related problem
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 Chuck DOT Irvine AT mail DOT sprint DOT com wrote:

> Just curious - why might the setting of TEMP make a difference? Thanks, 
> anyway, though.

It makes a difference for some tools such as patch which creates a
temporary file. The default TEMP points to /cygdrive/c/WINNT/Temp on
say a NT or Win2k box which is by default textmode, and patch output
then adds unexpected ^Ms. I personally set TMPDIR and TEMP to /tmp
in .bashrc to avoid these little issues.

Doesn't make a difference for diff, which doesn't use temporary files.

Regards,
Mumit



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