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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: XP and /tmp directory
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:00:05 -0700
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Robert Pollard wrote:

> I have a situation where when i start cygwin, the program say's i have 
> to create a folder /tmp.
>
> I saw one response to this post but it didn't give any detail as to 
> what the permanent solution would be.  In other words, what do I have 
> to do to make the program see /tmp wherever it is.
>
> Any ideas, thought, etc. are much appreciated. 

Try:

$ mkdir -p $TMP

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