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From: Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [patch][test] Avoid writes to non-temp test-example files
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:24:04 +0000
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Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:

> Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
>> It may still have to
>> do with the environment — I start NTemacs from Cygwin to be able to use
>> Cygwin's make and this combination is somewhat fragile.
>
> ... and that seems indeed to be the culprit, running NTemacs from the
> Cygwin shell somehow causes Emacs to assume C:\ for the temporary
> directory, while it would correctly pick up the default location when
> started from the shortcut.  Again, setting TEMP to some sane value fixes
> the problem and since it is environment related there's nothing to fix
> in org mode.
>

Thanks for the head's up - I invariably end up on windows machines when
doing embedded work so such information could be personally useful.

Best, Martyn

>
> Regards,
> Achim.