Program can not be run in DOS mode

Thu Jan 25 07:23:00 GMT 2001

At 05:48 PM 1/24/2001, bob olbrich wrote:
>Hello,
>> I just came across Cygwin a few days ago, so I decided to try it.
>Eventually, I got it to download and install successfully. However,
>it does not want to boot.
> The error in the subject occurs every time I use the shortcut on
>my desktop. By using the step-by-step boot in Win98, I found
>that the error occurs after the following line:
>> Call c:\windows\command.com /e:4096 /c c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
>> Cygwin.bat looks like:
>> @echo off
>> C:
> chdir \cygwin\bin
>> bash --login -i
>> One more command is executed (c:\windows\win.com /wx)
> and the machine reboots to Windows. Can someone with more experience
>help?

What's invoking win.com and why? You can't "boot" Cygwin. You can *run*
cygwin.bat from Windows however.
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