From: "Todd Goodman" <tsg1@earthlink.net>
To: "'Michael Nelson'" <mikenel@iapetus.com>,
"'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
Cc: "'cygwin'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: "Out of environment space" error
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003d01be65ec$c0e84f90$0301a8c0@tgoodman8> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.5xjgklTklp-rIUFjWSm166Y5B2ounMYg7mQ2CJfn2Iw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <067c01be65b7$41d82f20$01010e0a@dreamland1.corp.iapetus.com>
OK. Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Nelson [ mailto:mikenel@iapetus.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 3:49 PM
> To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi; Todd Goodman
> Cc: cygwin
> Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" error
>
>
> On NT, make sure you are using "cmd.exe" as your shell and
> not "command.com"
> (which runs in the VDM and has all of DOS's nasty limitations).
>
> -mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
> To: Todd Goodman <tsg1@earthlink.net>
> Cc: cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" error
>
>
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>> You are the first NT user I've seen have this problem.
> BTW, where is
> >>> the properties window for setting auto memory or 4096 on NT?
> >>
> >>Right click on the shortcut (which is a short-cut to an
> MSDOS program),
> >>select Properties, then Memory Tab, then under Conventional Memory
> >there is
> >>an Initial Environment drop down box which was set to Auto
> by default.
> >>
> >
> >Oh you may be better off leaving that the way it was. That
> will do no
> >good or harm to your Cygwin, in my opinion. Also Microsoft does not
> >advice using a config.sys file on NT.
> >
> >
> >>Perhaps it has to do with my installing NT over an existing 95
> >installation
> >>on
> >>the same drive (a FAT partition).
> >
> >Did you run the NT partition during installation? It should
> have taken
> >care of it, unless you forced the Nt installed to install OS
> in the same
> >directory where Win95 was already installed. In that case you are in
> >big trouble and may consider backing up your data and cleaning the
> >disk... then doing a fresh install.
>
>
>
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1999-03-03 12:48 Michael Nelson
[not found] ` < 067c01be65b7$41d82f20$01010e0a@dreamland1.corp.iapetus.com >
1999-03-03 19:17 ` Todd Goodman [this message]
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Michael Nelson
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1999-03-04 16:44 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-04 16:41 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-04 10:07 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-04 9:50 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 012301be6669$c5d173b0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-04 15:14 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-03-04 15:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Michael Hirmke
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-04 6:52 Michael V. Nikolaev
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Michael V. Nikolaev
1999-03-04 4:12 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-04 4:08 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 005801be663a$015a6430$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-04 9:38 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-03 10:45 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 008a01be65a8$27930450$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-03 19:12 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-03 10:39 Earnie Boyd
[not found] ` < 19990303184010.14870.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com >
1999-03-03 19:11 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-03-03 10:28 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 006701be65a5$c7773480$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-03 19:05 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-03 10:10 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-03 7:15 Earnie Boyd
[not found] ` < 19990303151627.7933.rocketmail@send103.yahoomail.com >
1999-03-03 10:21 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-03-03 3:48 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 002c01be656d$f889e5a0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-03 10:05 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-02 19:11 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 001101be6523$7e32c5f0$3268d1d0@hunda >
1999-03-02 20:47 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Todd Goodman
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-02 18:10 Damian Rouson
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Damian Rouson
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