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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:20:00 -0500
To: bob olbrich <rjob AT gulftel DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Program can not be run in DOS mode
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At 05:48 PM 1/24/2001, bob olbrich wrote:
>Hello,
>
>      I just came across Cygwin a few days ago, so I decided to try it.
>Eventually, I got it to download and install successfully. However,
>it does not want to boot.
>     The error in the subject occurs every time I use the shortcut on
>my desktop. By using the step-by-step boot in Win98, I found
>that the error occurs after the following line:
>
>      Call c:\windows\command.com /e:4096 /c c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
>
>    Cygwin.bat looks like:
>
>        @echo off
>
>        C:
>        chdir \cygwin\bin
>
>        bash --login -i
>
>     One more command is executed (c:\windows\win.com /wx)
>  and the machine reboots to Windows. Can someone with more experience
>help?



What's invoking win.com and why?  You can't "boot" Cygwin.  You can *run*
cygwin.bat from Windows however.



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