Re: [Pan-users] How to change Pan's temp(orary) path to somewhere else?

[Ant]

> On Sat 02 Feb 2013 at 07:42:24 -0800, Ant wrote:

> > > export TMP=/scratch/tmp
> > > 
> > > so apparently I used to have the same problem in some forgotten past :-)
> > 
> > Thanks. So, there's no way to do it for Pan only and not everyone's tmp? 
> > :(
> 
> Yes, it is effective only for Pan, since I put it in the script that I
> use to start it. (I often make little scripts to collect my favourite
> options to common commands). Rememer that the environment variables are
> inherited only by child processes, they don't propagate up or sideways
> or anything. So once this script terminates, the value is gone. The same
> is true for the ulimit values I set below.
> 
> export TMP=/scratch/tmp
> exec /usr/pkg/bin/pan "$@"

> I use "exec" at the end because the invocation of pan is the last thing
> in the script, so we don't need the shell any more and we can re-use its
> process to run pan.

Yay! I was able to download a yyencoded 1.55 GB .7z file with "export 
TMP=/scratch/tmp" and running Pan through KDE's v4.45. So Pan was indeed 
using /tmp by default for me. For now with big files, I will use this 
temporary workaround. Thanks all! :)
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