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RE: "Out of environment space" error
- To: <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Subject: RE: "Out of environment space" error
- From: "Todd Goodman" <tsg1@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:06:01 -0500
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> -----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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