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Re: WinNT Lockup
- To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall at rfk dot com>, "Farmer, Tony" <FarmerT at ally dot com>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: WinNT Lockup
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:28:10 -0700 (PDT)
--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
> At 01:52 PM 10/13/2000, Farmer, Tony wrote:
> >I've setup Cygwin on two systems - one NT and one 98. The 98 system seems
> >to work fine, but on the NT system whenever I type a command that doesn't
> >exist ("XXX" for example), Cygwin locks up. Ctl-C, Ctl-Break, nothing will
> >get me out of it short of closing the Cygwin window. Is this something I'm
> >doing wrong or a peculiarity with NT?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >alfarmer@hotmail.com
>
>
> Are you sure your path on the NT system doesn't have a network share in it?
> The longer the path, the longer the search. Add several factors for any
> network shares in the path. Add many more factors for network shares that
> aren't reachable. This could look like a "lock up".
>
Good catch Larry. Sounds like an explaination for the FAQ.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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