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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:10:01 -0400
To: Boris Kirzner <borisk AT mainsoft DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: tcsh hangs after updating to cygwin 1.5.7-1. Expires with   "Out of Memory"
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At 04:02 AM 7/5/2005, you wrote:
>Michael Bax <bax3.NO <at> SPAM.bigfoot.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> I discovered that my .history file was 53 MB in size!  This is with
>>   history 1024
>>   savehist    (1024 merge)
>> in my .login.
>> 
>> > wc .history
>>   0 3316299 53060768 .history
>> 
>
>I've got the same problem with the same symptoms (the only difference - I
>connect to my cygwin with putty via sshd).
> 
>Removing/renaming .history file solves the problem.


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