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From: gregm AT netidea DOT com
To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi AT ipass DOT net>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 19:23:33 -0700
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Subject: Re: cygwin.bat fails (and hi from a new user)
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 Thanks but I'm afraid this is something other then environment 
memory. 
 
> Add this to your Config.sys and reboot your machine.
> 
> shell=C:\Command.com /e:4096 /p
> 
Personally I prefer FreeBSD for programming but want to use 
cygwin for some windows projects. Personally I'd like to see ms 
os's done away with all together but I have a recording studio and 
the ware I use requires mswindows. What's a sod to do? :-)
> 
> You can make better use of Cygwin if you upgrade to Win NT.  Win98 and 95
> are too flaky and are meant only playing games, not for serious computings.
> I am looking forward to Bill Gates promise that Win98 and Win95 will go away and all the Windows will use same kernel from NT.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <gregm AT netidea DOT com>
> To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 6:05 PM
> Subject: cygwin.bat fails (and hi from a new user)
> 
> 
> > I can run sh then bash just fine but there seems to be a problem 
> > with the bat file that the start menu accesses. I can't see a 
> > problem and am hopiung someone can for me. The errors I get are:
> > Too many parameters
> > Bad command or file name
> > 
> > The bat file looks like this:
> > @ECHO OFF
> > SET MAKE_MODE=UNIX
> > SET PATH=d:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN;%PATH%
> > bash
> > 
> > I'm using win98.
> > Any sugestions would be appreciated. I'm thrilled to have unix 
> > emulation on mswindows. Any chance I'll get a core dump instead 
> > of the blue screen of death? ;-)
> > Regards,
> > Greg Martin
> > gregm AT netidea DOT com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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