X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BBE0C53.9030905@alice.it> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:03:15 +0200 From: Angelo Graziosi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: On TMP, TEMP... variables Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I remember that there was some discussion on December[*] regarding these environment variables. The conclusion was, if I remember correctly, that Cygwin, by default, *does not set* them, like GNU/Linux systems. Indeed my Windows installation sets them but Cygwin shows that they *are not*: $ echo $TEMP $ echo $TMP $ echo $TMPDIR Now in http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html I read: "In addition to PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, there are three other environment variables which, if they exist in the Windows environment, are converted to UNIX format: TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP[...] If set, these variables will be used by some Cygwin applications, possibly with unexpected results." These words seem to contradict the above statement. So, how is the 'matter'? TIA, Angelo. --- [*] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00046.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple