From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27532 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: mswincontext problems Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:05 +0200 Message-ID: <4450CF19.6050507@wxs.nl> References: <445099CC.1060401@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146146596 1458 80.91.229.2 (27 Apr 2006 14:03:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 27 16:03:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZ75M-0007pA-8m for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F2B127D7; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13136-08-9; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F2C127C5; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C03C127C5 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13136-08-8 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BC9D127C2 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:03:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 14402 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:03:05 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <445099CC.1060401@elvenkind.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27532 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------