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Re: cygwin 1.7.1: "bash prompt here" can't be used at directory which's name contains unicode charactor.


On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:57:39PM +0000, Dave wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:44:45PM +0000, Dave wrote:
>>> Also, is the d:\ within quotes later in the command erronously
>>> triggering the nodosfile warning?  I'm not expecting to see it here.
>> 
>> I guess this is a FAQ.  The error message comes from an attempt to do a
>> file access using an MS-DOS path.  It does not come from random use of
>> backslashes in the command line.
>> 
>> If you see the error then something is trying to use MS-DOS paths.
>
>That's what I thought, but the command that's being run doesn't have an
>MSDOS path except as an argument to the script that bash couldn't find:

I'm telling you how Cygwin is written.  Someone else will have to help
track down what's causing Cygwin to see an MS-DOS path.

cgf

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