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From: "mike friedrichs" <mike_fr1 AT txucom DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bash startup
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:57:10 -0600
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

sorry it took so long to reply.  my employer sent me out of country for a
while.

but, i created tmp directories in all of my drives, works ok now. still
having problems understanding why tmp directories have to be created in all
drives.

thanks,


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "mike friedrichs" <mike_fr1 AT txucom DOT net>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: bash startup


>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, mike friedrichs wrote:
>
> > this is _bashrc, again with no changes
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > # ~/.bashrc
> >
> > if [ "$PS1" != "" ]; then
> >   # setting for interactive shell
> >   CVSROOT=/usr/src/master
> >   EDITOR='mule -w'
> >   CDPATH="${HOME}/work;${HOME}"
> >   TMPDIR=/tmp
> >   export CVSROOT EDITOR CDPATH TMPDIR
>
> That's your problem, right there: TMPDIR is set to "/tmp".  If you
> don't have "/tmp" on each and every drive on your system, pipes and
> other commands which use temporary files won't work.  (This is
> explained in section 6.11 of the DJGPP FAQ list, btw.)
>