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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:48:22 +0100
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Just commenting on one aspects:
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /etc/profile.
>>>>> Then things should work as in linux.
>>>> Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a Windows
>>>> application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin?
A Windows application is likely to fail on cygpath-transformed values of 
TEMP and TMP anyway, or am I missing something?
(E.g. is there some implicit back-transformation if cygwin starts a 
Windows application?)

Thomas

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