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Windows 95 install insists on MS-DOS mode


I installed cygwin with no trouble on my office computer (Windows 98) but on 
my home computer (Windows 95) clicking on the cygwin icon leads to the 
message "This program is set to run in MS-DOS mode and cannot run while 
other programs are running."  If I then proceed, it tries to reboot, gives 
some error message that scrolls away too fast to read, and reboots again to 
Windows.  In any event, I don't want to kill my other Windows processes.

I have had similar problems on that computer trying to install a DOS version 
of Mathematica which ran on other Windows 95 machines, so I suspect it is 
something funny about the Windows configuration.  This is a  bad problem for 
me, since one of my main motivations for using cygwin is to avoid having to 
learn anything about Windows.

To install on my home computer, where I don't have a fast connection, I 
burnt the installation files from my office computer to an OD, and ran setup 
from that.  Setup ran to completion with no error messages on screen or in 
the log files.
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