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Re: WinNT Lockup


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".



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