From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: getenv problem
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Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote in
news:3e04a4de DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu: 

> On Windows 2000 SP1 
> 
> TEMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
> TMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
> 
> (When TEMP is pointed to the system default of c:\docu...\username...)
> 
> If I set TEMP at the command line, that TEMP then goes through.
> 
> So this appears is default behavior on Win2K/XP family (I think I'm
> seeing the same thing as you described).

thank you for checking this out.

i am inclined to think of this as a bug in windows because other system 
environment variables overridden by user variables seem to come through 
OK. also, some users may not have permission to write to 
%SYSTEMROOT%\temp, and a DOS program that needed to write temporary files 
would fail for those users.

for now, i am going to work around this by setting

+TMPDIR=C:\DOCUME~1\%USERNAME%\LOCALS~1\Temp
TEMP=%TMPDIR%
TMP=%TMPDIR%

in djgpp.env.

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