From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: pipes in bash
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 14:41:00 +0200
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Sherlock Campbell wrote:
> 
> When I try to run a shell script in bash, I get a "fatal: can't create
> pipes" message.
> I have checked and my TMPDIR exists, is writeable on my pc, my drive is not
> full...

What is the value of your TMPDIR, and where it is set (in AUTOEXEC.BAT or
elsewhere)?