From: Martin Str|mberg Subject: Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3E14606E DOT E5B4D1A9 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> <7458-Thu02Jan2003202306+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <3E148A04 DOT 3F47DC01 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (NetBSD/1.5_BETA (alpha)) Message-ID: <1041533830.825553@queeg.ludd.luth.se> Cache-Post-Path: queeg.ludd.luth.se!unknown AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: 02 Jan 2003 18:57:10 GMT Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: queeg.ludd.luth.se X-Trace: 1041533830 news.luth.se 26545 130.240.16.109 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Richard Dawe wrote: : Aargh! I found that I had TMPDIR set with forward slashes in my autoexec.bat. : Thanks! : Now, if I'd read the FAQ, I would have seen that the example of TMPDIR has : forward slashes... And how does that explain that perl gets a backslash? Right, MartinS