RE: "Out of environment space" error

["Todd Goodman" <tsg1@earthlink.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 1:40 PM
> To: Todd Goodman
> Cc: 'cygwin users'
> Subject: RE: "Out of environment space" error
>
>
> ---Todd Goodman <tsg1@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 8<
> > > 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.
> 8<
>
> There is no Memory Tab on the NT MS-DOS Prompt Properites dialog.  The
> Tabs should be General, Shortcut, Options, Font, Layout and Colors; in
> that order.

I have General, Program, Font, Memory, Screen, Misc.

Program contains a Windows NT button that lets me select the autoexec.bat
and config.sys
to use (defaulting to %SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS).

Sure looks like NT to me.

>
> 8<
> > Perhaps it has to do with my installing NT over an existing 95
> installation
> > on
> > the same drive (a FAT partition).
> 8<
>
> My guess here is that you didn't properly install NT.  Don't know what
> you've as a result.  I suggest trying it again as this is definitely
> not NT.

I believe it is installed properly.  I was able to install SP4 after all and
all NT programs are running OK.

Thanks anyway,

Todd

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