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RE: "Out of environment space" error
- To: "'Michael Nelson'" <mikenel@iapetus.com>, "'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Subject: RE: "Out of environment space" error
- From: "Todd Goodman" <tsg1@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:11:52 -0500
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OK. Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Nelson [mailto:mikenel@iapetus.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 3:49 PM
> To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi; Todd Goodman
> Cc: cygwin
> Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" error
>
>
> On NT, make sure you are using "cmd.exe" as your shell and
> not "command.com"
> (which runs in the VDM and has all of DOS's nasty limitations).
>
> -mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
> To: Todd Goodman <tsg1@earthlink.net>
> Cc: cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" error
>
>
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>> You are the first NT user I've seen have this problem.
> BTW, where is
> >>> the properties window for setting auto memory or 4096 on NT?
> >>
> >>Right click on the shortcut (which is a short-cut to an
> MSDOS program),
> >>select Properties, then Memory Tab, then under Conventional Memory
> >there is
> >>an Initial Environment drop down box which was set to Auto
> by default.
> >>
> >
> >Oh you may be better off leaving that the way it was. That
> will do no
> >good or harm to your Cygwin, in my opinion. Also Microsoft does not
> >advice using a config.sys file on NT.
> >
> >
> >>Perhaps it has to do with my installing NT over an existing 95
> >installation
> >>on
> >>the same drive (a FAT partition).
> >
> >Did you run the NT partition during installation? It should
> have taken
> >care of it, unless you forced the Nt installed to install OS
> in the same
> >directory where Win95 was already installed. In that case you are in
> >big trouble and may consider backing up your data and cleaning the
> >disk... then doing a fresh install.
>
>
>
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