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From: GamerX_ AT usa DOT net (Dylan Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions / Win 95
17 Jun 1998 20:24:42 -0700 :
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-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Mike Bandy <bandy AT aplcomm DOT jhuapl DOT edu>; gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
<gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wednesday 17, June, 1998 04:59
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions / Win 95


>---Mike Bandy <bandy AT aplcomm DOT jhuapl DOT edu> wrote:
>>
>> 3) After installing Cygnus my Windows 95 boot sequence hangs for
>about 30
>> seconds just before the user screen appears (i.e. a black screen
>after the
>> big splash panel but before the screen with the "Start" button on
>it).
>> What's it waiting for?
>
>I haven't heard this one yet.  Does anyone else remember anything on
>this one?  My guess would be some registry bit for network services;
>but, I really don't have a clue.  I know that nothing is added to the
>"Start Up" folder.
>
>At first, I thought you were talking about the starting of bash, but
>then I realized that you're saying that installing the CDK has changed
>the way the system starts.


Probably just the autoexec.bat existing now.  It's not hanging, but it's not
giving out screen output since there is likely an @echo off command at the
start of the file.  I've always ran with a config.sys/autoexec.bat pairing,
so I've never had "problems" like that.


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