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From:	"Todd Goodman" <tsg1 AT earthlink DOT net>
To:	"'Michael Nelson'" <mikenel AT iapetus DOT com>,
	"'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'" <Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com>
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Subject:	RE: "Out of environment space" error
Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:11:52 -0500
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OK.  Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Nelson [mailto:mikenel AT iapetus DOT 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 AT InspirePharm DOT Com>
> To: Todd Goodman <tsg1 AT earthlink DOT net>
> Cc: cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT 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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