Re: Windows 95 install insists on MS-DOS mode

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

"Charles D. Russell" wrote:
> 
> PROBLEM:
> 
> I installed cygwin with no trouble on my office computer (Windows 98) but on
> my home computer (Windows 95) clicking on the cygwin icon leads to the
> message "This program is set to run in MS-DOS mode and cannot run while
> other programs are running."  If I then proceed, it tries to reboot, gives
> some error message that scrolls away too fast to read, and reboots again to
> Windows.  In any event, I don't want to kill my other Windows processes.
> 
> I have had similar problems on that computer trying to install a DOS version
> of Mathematica which ran on other Windows 95 machines, so I suspect it is
> something funny about the Windows configuration.  This is a  bad problem for
> me, since one of my main motivations for using cygwin is to avoid having to
> learn anything about Windows.
> 
> To install on my home computer, where I don't have a fast connection, I
> burnt the installation files from my office computer to an OD, and ran setup
> from that.  Setup ran to completion with no error messages on screen or in
> the log files.
> 
> SOLUTION:
> 
>   All it took was unchecking the "MS-DOS" mode box in the shortcut
> properties.  Why the installation program left that checked in the first
> place, I don't know.  Not at all the same problem that I encountered with
> Mathematica, a problem I have still not solved.
> 
> QUESTIONS:
> 
> Can someone tell me how to respond to a specific message from the archive
> without formally subscribing and being bombarded with
> messages?  Is there any way to search the archive for an exact phrase?
> Single or double quotes won't work.  Is there any place I should be looking
> for answers to this sort of question?
> 

Hmm...  Searching the archive is the best place but I don't remember
seeing this before.  W95 is all but dead so fewer and fewer on this list
have it.  Since this is the first post of this kind then in hasn't been
a Frequently Asked Question so you won't find it in the FAQ either which
is the first place to start when you need a question answered that might
be a common problem.

Earnie.

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