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Date:	Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:36:28 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP) - 2 attachments
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:26:32AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:02:13PM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in 
>>news:20040804044219 DOT GB14293 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:29:41AM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote:
>>>>- If I run "ver /r" from the 4NT window, with my current directory on
>>>>c: \ (which is my WinXP boot drive), it says:
>>>>
>>>>4NT 5.00U Windows XP 5.1 4NT Build 125 Windows XP Build 2600 Service
>>> Are you sure that you're running the same version of cygcheck in each
>>> case?  Your path is different between the 4nt and cmd case (see below).
>>> 
>>> In either event, you don't seem to have a mount table, if you are
>>> reporting the total output of cygcheck.exe.  That's certainly a
>>> problem.
>>> 
>>> If you aren't reporting everything that cygcheck reports you should
>>> perform a cygcheck -rsv in both the failing and working cases and send
>>> them here as attachments.
>>> 
>>Okay, I should have included the complete listings in both cases, sorry 
>>about that!!
>>
>>It *does* appear that I only have one copy of cygcheck.exe on my disk, 
>>according to Find.  However, 4NT and CMD.exe *do* run with different 
>>paths, is it possible that's related to my problems somehow??  Here are 
>>the complete cygcheck listings, included as attachments (does that really 
>>work??
>
>If by "work", you mean uuencode the output of two files, include them inline,
>and make them tedious to extract, then yes, it worked.
>
>FYI, this isn't a newsgroup, it's a mailing list.  You're accessing the cygwin
>mailing list via the Gmane which is an unofficial news gateway to this list.

I found this in your cygcheck output as one of your environment variables in
the failing 4NT case:

__COMPAT_LAYER = `Win98 DisableThemes '

This is the cause of your problems.  I don't know what's setting it
(4nt\4start.btm maybe?) but if you unset it, things should work correctly.

cgf

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