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Re: directories for temporary files
- From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:31:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: directories for temporary files
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Hi Reinhard
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> Hi,
> first of all, thanks to everyone involved in cygwin development.
>
> However, there is a bug in /etc/profile. The variables TMP and TEMP
> are set to /tmp but they are absolutely useless. These variables are
> not used by any program.
I do occasionally start Windows programs from the Cygwin prompt (e.g.
with cygstart). Those programs could conceivably make use of TEMP or
TMP.
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