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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:19:35 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP binaries of egcs-1.1.2-pre3 available for testing
References: <B0000079103 AT stargate DOT astr DOT lu DOT lv>; from Andris Pavenis on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 07:17:08PM +0200 <B0000079325 AT stargate DOT astr DOT lu DOT lv>
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Andris Pavenis wrote:

> Unfortunatelly there is one problem. Hack to avoid race situations with creation
> of temporary failes causes creating unneccessary temporary files by gpc.exe (I
> have $TMPDIR set to RAMdisk and there is limit of number of files in root
> directory). I should be fix it.

That's arguably your fault.  Pointing $TMPDIR or similar to a root
directory is never a good idea, IMHO, for just that reason.  

I have in my AUTOEXEC, with D: the ramdisk:

mkdir d:\temp
set TEMP=d:\temp

But it may well be worth fixing the code anyway, for other people with
the same setup.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com