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Subject: RE: Can not run telnet?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:24:37 +0100
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On 27 April 2006 16:13, lin q wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have cygwin installed on my Dell laptop with Windows XP, it works great.
> But today I find a strange thing, I can not start telnet.
> 
>   In cygwin, after I run command, "telnet  myMachine", it quietly returns,
> nothing happens.
> 
>   Then I go to DOS window and run the same command, it works fine.
> 
>   I come back to cygwin, and type "which telnet" and "type telnet", it is
> using windows telnet, here is the log,
> 
> which telnet
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/telnet
> 
> type telnet
> telnet is hashed (/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/telnet)
> 
>   Any clue why this happens?


  WAG: no $SYSTEMROOT in your cygwin environment vars leading to winsock
initialisation failure?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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