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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:36:00 +0300 (EET DST)
> > From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
> >
> > On my machine, I have TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP all set to e: (my ram drive)
>
> Why not set them to e:/ or e:\ ?

I did so after I noticed that Emacs doesn't like plain e: (BTW, this is
completely undocumented in the Emacs manual).

> I'm not sure it's Emacs's fault: "e:" is a bad value for a temporary
> directory, since the place it points to will change with the cwd on
> drive E.  Emacs needs a fixed place for TMPDIR, so it could relate to
> it from any buffer and still find the files.

The why doesn't Emacs add a slash to the string?  DJGPP's tmpnam does so
and it seems quite sensible to me.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/