From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Todd Goodman" To: "'Suhaib M. Siddiqi'" , "'Damian Rouson'" , Subject: RE: "Out of environment space" error Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <003401be659f$aab69350$0301a8c0@tgoodman8> References: <002c01be656d$f889e5a0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00057.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.zJB1BYAPKrDTWsd_9h25VvvFs32xXsRo7oeWYxJVpzY@z> Yes, it certainly must be something to do with my NT environment since others have reported that they don't see it. FWIW, when I was running under Win95 I successfully got rid of the messages using the steps in the FAQ. Todd > -----Original Message----- > From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [ mailto:Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com ] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 7:04 AM > To: Todd Goodman; 'Damian Rouson'; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" error > > > Good to know it. I assume it could be specific to your NT env. > I am also using NT 4.0 with SP4 on 2 machines. Both has Cygwin B20.1 > installed. I never had *out of env* problems on my NT 4 with SP 4. > Though, as a thumb rule, I always use a pagefile on all the > disks and my > pagefiles > on NT are always twice the size of my physical RAM. According to my > experience, and also some documents > at microsoft web pages, it improves the performance of NT. > > Regards > Suhaib > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Todd Goodman > To: 'Suhaib M. Siddiqi' ; 'Damian Rouson' > ; > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 11:42 PM > Subject: RE: "Out of environment space" error > > > >It is untrue that it only happens on Win 95/98. > > > >I get "Out of environment" errors for every "set" > >line in the cygnus.bat file when run from my > >NT 4.0 SP 4 machine. > > > >I have set the properties for auto memory and also > >4096 with no difference. > > > >Todd > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com > >> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib M. > >> Siddiqi > >> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 10:11 PM > >> To: Damian Rouson; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > >> Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" error > >> > >> > >> The answer is in FAQ. You need to edit your config.sys file > >> on Win95/98. > >> It occurs only on win95/98. > >> FAQ link is on the Cygnus web pages. > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Damian Rouson > >> To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com' > >> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 9:11 PM > >> Subject: "Out of environment space" error > >> > >> > >> >I have tried running beta 20.1 of the bash shell on > >> >both Windows 95 & 98. In both cases, I get the error > >> >"Out of environment space > >> > Bad command or file name" > >> >upon launching the shell and then shell exits. > >> >(With Win98, the first line is repeated twice.) My > >> >machine has 128 MB of RAM and 202 MB of free disk > >> >space on the partition on which Cygwin is installed. > >> > > >> >Can anybody tell me what's causing this? > >> > > >> > > >> >Damian > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Want to unsubscribe from this list? > >> >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Want to unsubscribe from this list? > >> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > >> > >> > > > >-- > >Want to unsubscribe from this list? > >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > > > > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com