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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:09:19 +0100
From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo DOT graziosi AT alice DOT it>
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Just for the record...

Andy Koppe wrote:
> Some (badly written) Windows programs expect TEMP and/or TMP to always
> be set to a valid directory and will misbehave when they aren't.

[...]

> and if
> they're unlucky, stuff might even get overwritten.

For Windows native applications, I adopted this solution in .bashrc

acroread()
{
     TEMP=/home/$USER/Temp \
     cyg-wrapper.sh "/WinXP/Programmi/Adobe/Reader 
10.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe" \
         "$@" 2>/dev/null
}

etc.

Ciao,
Angelo.

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