RE: out of environment space

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> In reply to Suhaib Siddiqi's message (below):
> 
> I'm using 1.3.1 -- I haven't had a chance to install 1.3.2 yet.
> 
> Anyway, your reply brings up a question that had been 
> puzzling me.  You
> mention cygwin in your reply, but according to the FAQ, one runs
> startxwin.bat from the "Windows Explorer", i.e., not under 
> cygwin, so it
> wouldn't matter if I had any version of cygwin on my system, which I
> never understood.
> 
> So, maybe I should be running it from cygwin?  Can I run .bat files
> under cygwin?
> 

Cygwin/XFree86 is compiled using Cygwin, therefore it uses Cygwin1.dll....
therefore it matters which version of cygwin are you using :-)


Suhaib

> Sorry I'm so confused.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael
> 
> > To: "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" 
> <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com> 
> >      Subject: RE: out of environment space 
> >      From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com> 
> >      Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:34:59 -0400 
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Which version of Cygwin are you using?  The out of env 
> issue was fixed in
> > Cygwin long time ago?
> > If you are still getting it with Cygwin 1.3.2, add the 
> following to your
> > config.sys and reboot
> > shell=C:\Command.com /e:4096 /p
> > 
> > If you a very old version of Cygwin, you must upgrade.
> > 
> > /B is not supported under Windows 9x/ME.  It is supported 
> only undet NT/2000
> > complain to Microsoft for making DOS shells options 
> incompatible among
> > different
> > windows platforms
> > 
> > Suhaib
>