Re: "Too many paramters" error

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

--- heddle@cebaf.gov wrote:
> 
> Well I did not get to far with the cygwin B20 release. I got past the
> insufficient
> environment space problem, but i still won't start the original bash shell
> giving
> me this error on the dos window:
> 
>      Too many parameters
>      Bad command or file name
> 
> This occurs regardless of whether I run from the cygnus program group\on the
> start menu or 
> go to the cygnus folder and double click the icon.
> 
> I DID search the FAQ but did not find the explanation, which is undoubtedly
> a stupid operator error on my part. Please help if you can!

You must be using win9x and have specified a path in the PATH variable with a
space in it.  To solve change this to the DOS 8.3 name.

=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>

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