On Jan 15 09:58, Gary . wrote: > Jeremy Bopp wrote: > > Gary . wrote: > > > "cygwin warning: > > > MS-DOS style path detected: c:\programme\develop\ruby\bin\inputrc.euro > > > Preferred POSIX equivalent is (blah)" > > > > > > Okay. Except I can't find a file anywhere containing any mention of > > > inputrc.euro... (in fact > > > the mentioned path doesn't even exist any more > > > Check your environment variables to ensure that none of them point to > > that file. Aside from that, it would help if you gave more details > > regarding what exactly you're doing/running when you see this warning. > > You're right, it was a Windows environment variable which for whatever > reason was not being converted. Maybe because the path doesn't exist?
Cygwin can't know which environment variables have to be converted and which don't. Therefore only a small subset know to contain paths and necessary for its own operation is converted. The User's Guide contains a section about this: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple