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Re: setting CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning not working.


I tried setting it in the under the System Variables section  but still I am getting this warning.

Is there any other way to set the CYGWIN env variable.

thanks,
Prakash

--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: setting CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning not working.
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 7:04 PM
> On 10 June 2010 12:55, prakash babu
> wrote:
> > I have a web application which runs as SYSTEM user in
> windows.
> > It executes the following command using Java
> Runtime.exec api's
> > C:/cygwin/bin/sh.exe -c C:/cygwin/bin/mkdir.exe -p
> 'C:/cygwin/tmpdir'
> >
> > The command executes fine but I get the following
> warning.
> >
> > cygwin warning:
> > ?MS-DOS style path detected: C:/cygwin
> > ?Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /
> > ?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
> >
> > To suppress this warning I set the environment
> variable CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning by
> MyComputer-->Advanced-->EnvironmentVariables, but
> still I am getting this warning.
> 
> Make sure you set it under "System variables" rather than
> "User
> variables for ...".
> 
> Andy
> 
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