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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:53:18 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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CC: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs
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Hello.

$TMPDIR seems to have different slash directions, depending on which program I
use:

bash-2.04$ echo | awk "{ print ENVIRON[\"TMPDIR\"] }"
c:\temp
bash-2.04$ perl -e 'print $ENV{TMPDIR}."\n";'
c:\temp
bash-2.04$ sh -c 'echo $TMPDIR'
c:/temp

bash-2.04$ echo | awk "{ print ENVIRON[\"TEMP\"] }"
C:\TEMP
bash-2.04$ perl -e 'print $ENV{TEMP}."\n";'
C:\TEMP
bash-2.04$ sh -c 'echo $TEMP'
C:\TEMP

I suspect the programs are working as expected, but it's a bit confusing when
you have, say, Perl and shell script programs interacting. I wonder if TMPDIR
should be forward-slashified in awk & perl, like it is in bash.

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]