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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

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