From: Steve Merrick <Steve.Merrick@...>
Date: 2000-09-01T00:10:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4697] Re: Getting started

"hipster" <hipster@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:20000831161756.A13963@xs4all.nl...
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000  22:47:46 +0900, Steve Merrick wrote:
> > When I type >>ruby -le 'print "Hello world\n"'<<, I get >>ruby:0:
> > Can't mktemp (fatal)<<
>
> IIRC, you need to set TMP or TMPDIR or TEMPDIR (can't remember which)
to
> an existing path, or just create a /tmp.

Thanks, Michel. The environment variables had no effect, but creating
C:\tmp did the trick.

P.S. I didn't realise that emailing the "Ruby-talk" mailing list would
end up here on comp.lang.ruby. I thought there was a separate mailing
list. How quaint. ;-)

--
Steve

Eliminate the external, and whatever remains, however improbable, must
be yourself.