From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Subject: Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
:> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
:> $TMPDIR seems to have different slash directions, depending on which program I
:> use:
:> 
:> bash-2.04$ 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 _must_ have TMPDIR forward-slashed, or else lots of scripts will
: fall apart.  I don't know about Perl, but I think you are right
: assuming it should get the same treatment.

I've "set TMPDIR=t:/tmp" in my AUTOEXEC.BAT but still the perl snippet
above says "t:\tmp" so there's something more going on.


Right,

						MartinS