On 4/24/2010 2:49 PM, Uday S Reddy wrote:
For instance, running ediff-buffers produces the warning:\cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: c:/DOCUME~1/udr/LOCALS~1/Temp/ediff3032ltH
AFAICT, this seems to be a localized problem. Emacs is setting its variable temporary-file-directory using the environment variable TEMP. This is obviously an MS-DOS path name. Setting it to something sensible, like C:/Cygwin/tmp cured the problem. Cheers, Uday