diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b6647c200..199431920 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 	usePseudoTerminal method.
 	* Source/NSData.m: ([writeToFile:atomically:]) create new files
 	with permission 0644 modified by umask.
+	Init tmppath for MINGW.
 	* Tools/gsdoc.m: Use memory management macros and attempt to get
 	back to something like conformance with coding standards.
 	* Documentation/gsdoc/NSTask.gsdoc: documentation fleshed out.
diff --git a/Source/NSData.m b/Source/NSData.m
index d37f9a7ea..6760132e2 100644
--- a/Source/NSData.m
+++ b/Source/NSData.m
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ failure:
   FILE		*theFile;
   int		c;
 #if defined(__MINGW__)
-  NSString	*tmppath;
+  NSString	*tmppath = path;
   HANDLE	fh;
   DWORD		wroteBytes;
 #endif