From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Todd Goodman" To: "'Michael Nelson'" , "'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'" Cc: "'cygwin'" Subject: RE: "Out of environment space" error Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <003d01be65ec$c0e84f90$0301a8c0@tgoodman8> References: <067c01be65b7$41d82f20$01010e0a@dreamland1.corp.iapetus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00086.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.5xjgklTklp-rIUFjWSm166Y5B2ounMYg7mQ2CJfn2Iw@z> 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 > To: Todd Goodman > Cc: cygwin > 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. > > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com