Re: [h-e-w] Cygwin and MS-DOS style paths

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uday S Reddy <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:49:22 +0100
> 
> cygwin warning:
>    MS-DOS style path detected: c:/DOCUME~1/udr/LOCALS~1/Temp/ediff3032ltH
>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is: 
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/udr/LOCALS~1/Temp/ediff3032ltH
>    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
> 
> I am wondering what is the right thing to do to correct this problem.  One 
> can of course set nodosfilewarning and move on.  But, I suppose there are 
> good reasons why Cygwin is discouraging them.  So, what should NT Emacs users 
> do?

Install a native port of GNU Diffutils?  There's one such available at
GnuWin32 site.