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Re: Installer issues [was RE: Mo Dejong's install problems]
- To: John Dallaway <jld at redhat dot com>, cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Installer issues [was RE: Mo Dejong's install problems]
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:49:58 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- John Dallaway <jld@redhat.com> wrote:
-8<-
>
> Note that, under Win95/98, it is a sensible precaution to increase the
> environment space to (say) 8kB, by modifying config.sys. Such a change
> is harmless, helps prevent 'out of environment space' problems and does
> not require uninstallation.
>
This can also be taken care of via the Properities Menu on the shortcut file.
Is it possible to create a shortcut and modfiy it's properties
programmatically? If that is possible then the installer could use the
shortcut in the Programs folder and prevent the problem in the first place.
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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