sort kills cygwin

[Max Bowsher]

Bhiksha Raj wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Im having blue screen of death problems all around.
> I thought I had this beat, but no..
>
> Anyway, Id been having BSOD problems when I ran "configure"
> for the guile packages. The machine only died when I ran
> the script, but I could not kill it by running any commands
> from commmand line.
>
> Ive finally isolated a command that kills my machine.
> Everytime I run "sort" on any data, the machine dies.
> sort --version does not give me a version number, but
> rather the node that <-VERSION> is not a file.
>
> Any idea why "sort" would cause problems? I have the latest
> texttools, and most system libraries are new, although I
> may have some old ones (older than 3 months)

Do you mean textutils?

Anyway, what you say about --version suggests that Windows sort is being run
instead of Cygwin sort.

You know, with the amount of BSODs your getting, I'd be thinking about
reinstalling Windows.

Max.


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