nodosfilewarning not working

Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com
Wed Oct 13 01:20:00 GMT 2010


On 10/12/2010 8:11 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:49:31PM -0700, Autotoonz wrote:
>> Executing scripts with DOS style pathnames causes the following error:
>> MS-DOS style path detected
>> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
>> warning.
>> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>>
>> Annoyingly, setting a local environment variable *doesn't* turn off
>> this warning, and possibly as a form of punishment to DOS users there
>> is no further information in the Help and FAQ.
> 
> It's best to eschew the annoyance and conspiracy theories if you don't
> completely understand what's going on and actually want help.
> 
>> Here is the command line I'm running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login
>> C:\test\test.sh
> 
> Something like this works fine:
> 
> c:\>bash
> bash$ export CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
> bash$ cat "c:\autoexec.bat"
> 
> and so does:
> 
> c:\>set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
> c:\>C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login C:\test\test.sh
> 
> You may need to create a .bat file if you want to just do the latter.
> 
> cgf
> 
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You can also permanently set this environment variable from Windows itself so
that all instantiations of cygwin environments - regardless of shell will see it.

 

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