Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:31:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Sunil Rao <sunil AT raos DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: BASH problem
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Sunil Rao wrote:

> sorry if this slightly off-topic here, but EVERY time i try to run a
> shell script with bash 1.14.7(1) under Win 95 (the DJGPP port for DOS),
> i get this error message saying
> 
>         Can't make pipes for command substitution!
> 
>         Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV

The first thing I would suspect is that your TMPDIR variable points to a 
non-existent directory, or that the drive where TMPDIT points to is 
full.  Bash uses TMPDIR to create temporary files for simulated pipes.