the direcectory named TEMP or TMP

[Corinna Vinschen]

Bobby McNulty Junior wrote:
> 
> Do you still have to have a TEMP directory before
> starting Cygwin?
> I read the docs(outdated) and it gave the information
> about a TEMP directory.
> Bobby

Cygwin itself doesn't need /tmp (nor does it ever need it) but many
UNIX tools need it. Bash for example still warns the user if it can't
find /tmp.

However, if you use the current setup tool, it creates /tmp by itself.

Corinna

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