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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
Subject: Re: Reproduced it finally
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At 02:22 PM 12/6/2000, Charles Krug wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:03:45PM -0500, cygwin-return-20010-charles=pentek.com@sources.redhat.com wrote:
> > 
> > I'm guessing (only!) that the environment is somehow getting trashed in
> > some nested invocation.  That could explain the behavior.  I can't say 
> > that's it though...
> > 
>
>Could it be that the nested invocations are running out of environment
>space?  I'm not even sure if that's possible under NT, or what the
>difference is that makes Win95 work, unless they default to vastly
>different settings.
>
>
>Charles


Running out of space on NT is not likely to be the problem but corruption of
the environment space might.  Still, this is only a theory which is just
another word for speculation.  Speculation fixes nothing.  It needs to be
tracked down.  But this may be a starting point...


Larry


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