[Gmsh] Win98 home directory

[Christophe Geuzaine]

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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