From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: c:/djgpp: Permission denied (EACCESS)
Date: 3 Nov 1999 09:18:29 GMT
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N J Chackowsky (nick AT arcticmail DOT com) wrote:
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: Here's one possibility:
: 	I found that on at least one installation, the tmpdir variable had been
: incorrectly set thus:

: set tmpdir=c:\djgpp 

It'd be better if it was set to subdirectory instead of the main DJGPP
directory. It'd be easier to clean up if necessary.

: 	(Which LOOKS right, but there's an embedded space (char(32)) after
: djgpp. The environment was then trying to store temporary files in

: 	c:\djgpp \RHAAAAAA 
:                 ^ with an embedded blank here. 

: Correcting the autoexec.bat solved the problem on this station.

: I'll check other stations that give me that error message for the same
: problem. 

: BTW: 

: 	set djgpp=c:/djgpp/djgpp.env   <-- forward slashes
: 	set tmpdir=c:\djgpp            <-- backward slashes

: I'm a bit confused. Should I ALWAYS use forward slashes for djgpp
: programs? 

1.  The variables should be in upper case.

2.  The DJGPP variable can handle both variants. Perhaps other
    programs (non-DJGPP ones) use TMPDIR, so for safety I use "\" for
    that one.


Oldfield, Turbular Bells III,

							MartinS