On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:11:28PM -0800, Batson, Chuck wrote: >Hello folks, > >I am aware it is possible to disable the "MS-DOS style path detected" >warning with the 'nodosfilewarning' option. > >But this message raises the question of, "What is the Cygwin ideal?" >That is, how to avoid the warning in a "clean" way without resorting to >the 'nodosfilewarning' option? > >There is a situation in which it is not conceptually "clean" to avoid >the warning: at the interface between the host OS and Cygwin tools. > >Say, for example, you create a Windows batch file containing the line: > > touch C:\foo.txt > >You will receive the warning "MS-DOS style path detected." How do you >avoid the warning without resorting to 'nodosfilewarning'?
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