From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Fwd: RE: Win 95 Freeze Fix Confirmed 11 Sep 1998 05:49:58 -0700 Message-ID: <19980910121726.21894.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send102.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: jmamer AT anderson DOT ucla DOT edu Cc: gw32 ---Joe Soroka wrote: > > At 11:26 AM 5/18/98 -0700, you wrote: > >> From: Geoffrey Noer [mailto:noer AT cygnus DOT com] > >> I can confirm that installing the USB update patch from Microsoft > >> fixes the Win 95 freeze problem visible when control-C-ing in B19 > >> bash. (I think you need to be running OSR2 to install the patch). > > > >Forgive my newness... I am running Cygwin32 b19.1 on Win95, and > >experience a good solid freeze (I can move the mousepointer and press > >Ctl-Alt-Del repeatedly to reboot, but that's all) after 3 to 30 commands > >when running bash. This prevents me from compiling XEmacs, or anything > >else for that matter. Does this sound like the freeze problem of which > >you speak? > > That's exactly the type of problem I was having. I've been looking around > a lot since posting my findings last week. It seems that there are quite a > few versions of the file USBSUPP.EXE floating around the net. I used one > from MSDN dated Friday, April 11, 1997 1:21:52 AM, size 964,960 bytes, > version 4.03.1214... I could not any files matching these exact specs > anywhere on the internet, but.. > > Supposedly this patch is not directly available from Microsoft, for > endusers anyways. One can find similar files by using archie or > http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no and searching for USBSUPP.EXE.. A good genealogy > of all the versions of Windows 95 and what patches apply to which versions > is available at http://www.walbeehm.com/win95upd.html and it has links to > places where one could download a USB patch. > > As always, your mileage may vary. I can't find the exact file that I used > anywhere on the internet, but I'm guessing that the best approximation can > be found in the links at walbeehm.com. Perhaps Geoffrey Noer could give us > some detail on which version(s) he used to confirm the solution. > > Also everyone should note that I don't have any USB ports or devices, so > obviously the USB patch does more than add USB support. :) Just in case > anyone is thinking "USB patch? That doesn't apply to me." > > joe soroka. > jsoroka AT unixg DOT ubc DOT ca > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".