On Thu, 31 Aug 2000  22:47:46 +0900, Steve Merrick wrote:
> 
> I have downloaded Ruby for use on my Windows NT4 SP4 PC. I have
> downloaded Cygwin separately, and placed cygwin1.dll into my
> winnt\system32 directory. I have tried various settings for RUBYLIB;
> none seem to make a difference. :-(
> 
> >>Ruby -v<< returns >>ruby 1.4.0 (1999-08-13) [i386-cygwin]<<
> 
> 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.

Michel