Re: mswincontext problems

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi all (esp. windows users),
>
> Last night I tried setting up a Win98SE for use with context
> using mswincontext.zip (I borrowed a laptop for bachotek, so
> I could not install linux on it ... ).
>
> It went terribly wrong. At first I thought it was just the
> shoddy Win98 install on that machine, but Olivier tells me
> he also had problems installing the latest mswincontext, so
> I hope another someone who uses Windows98 can testrun the
> installation.
>
> I got all sort of errors from command.com (syntax error,
> out of environment space, command not found, permission
> denied), and the wiki page is definately incomplete so I
> could not really debug. In the end, I basically gave up.
>
> C
windows 98 has limitation on the env space; the way to get around it is to (1) define a larger value in the comspec (config.sys if i'm right) or to enlarge the value in the associated dos box 

anyhow, forget about windows 98, just as you forget about suse 2.0 or a linux 0.5 kernel or mac system 9 

Hans 

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