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RE: "Out of environment space" error



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 <tsg1@earthlink.net>
> To: 'Suhaib M. Siddiqi' <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>; 'Damian Rouson'
> <rouson@exponent.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> 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 <rouson@exponent.com>
> >> To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com' <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
> >> >
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