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Re: Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?


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'?

touch /cygdrive/c/foo.txt

cgf

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