Just for the record...
Andy Koppe wrote:
Some (badly written) Windows programs expect TEMP and/or TMP to always
be set to a valid directory and will misbehave when they aren't.
[...]
and if
they're unlucky, stuff might even get overwritten.
For Windows native applications, I adopted this solution in .bashrc
acroread()
{
TEMP=/home/$USER/Temp \
cyg-wrapper.sh "/WinXP/Programmi/Adobe/Reader
10.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe" \
"$@" 2>/dev/null
}
etc.
Ciao,
Angelo.
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