From: 065211 AT bud DOT cc DOT swin DOT edu DOT au (MURPHY, Jeremy W)
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Subject: Re: Which editor, and, install prob with tmp dir
Date: 26 Dec 2002 06:44:48 GMT
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Martin Stromberg (eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se) wrote:
: Jeremy W. Murphy (jwm AT bud DOT cc DOT swin DOT edu DOT au) wrote:
: : `dir' was just for the sake of example - this all came about because I am 
: : trying to compile Atlas, and the `config' program is failing to run `uname' 
: : with this error even _after_ I unset SHELL!

: : system("uname -s > c:\djgpp\tmp/dj710000 2>&1");
: : c:\djgpp\tmp/dj910000: c:djgpptmp/dj710000: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

: This is simple. "\" is special in C (and some other languages as
: well). To get one you need to two ("\\").

Yeah... I think I've been away from programming for too long.  :\ So now
that I know what my question is, I'll reiterate: why my exported
environment variable TMPDIR="c:/djgpp/tmp" appears as "c:\djgpp\tmp" when
I call getenv()!?  This is what is causing me all this confusion and
grief.  Details of producing this problem are in my previous post.  Thanks
again! 

Jeremy