Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:55:32 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs
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> From: lnobody AT delorie DOT com
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 02 Jan 2003 18:38:10 GMT
> ...
> : 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.

<Shrug> Perhaps Bash mirrors the slashes in variables it exports to
external programs.