[Gmsh] Win98 home directory
Christophe Geuzaine
c.geuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sat Jun 12 20:47:48 CEST 2004
John Absquoth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just started using Gmsh on a win98 PC and can't work out how to
> configure the home directory. I understand it depends on the $GMSH_HOME
> variable, but don't know where that should be specified. At the moment,
> the message window says:
>
> Info : Home directory : //
>
> When trying to add a new point in the interactive mode it fails, with
> the message:
>
> Error : Unable to open temporary file '//.gmsh-tmp'
>
> Old versions which have a home directory of /cygdrive/c/windows/TEMP/
> don't cause this problem.
I removed a special trick in the code fairly recently because I didn't
remember why we added it in the first place. Apparently, this is why :-)
I just re-added a special case for Windows machines in my source tree.
The fix should show up in tomorrow's nightly source archive.
Thanks for the report!
Christophe
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