yank on Windows

[Joshua Albrecht]

Hi Craig and Google group-

I'm teaching a computational musicology class this year, and I've got students using Windows laptops. They've bypassed Cygwin and gone straight to Windows' new WSL2, which appears superior, as it's built directly into the OS as far as I can tell and not dependent on an emulator.

But, I ran into an issue with yank today in class. Using the -o option, there appears to be an intermediate step in which yank creates a temp file in the temp directory. Unfortunately, the Linux install doesn't appear to have access to the temp directory and so throws permission errors. Even throwing sudo before the command doesn't work, as the Linux sandbox doesn't appear to be able to see that directory. 

Part of me entertained the idea of re-writing that part of the awk script to store it in a user-created subdirectory within the home directory of Linux, but doing that sort of thing always makes me nervous. Any suggestions?

-Josh