WinNT Lockup

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "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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