On 27 April 2006 16:13, lin q wrote:
> Hi,
> I have cygwin installed on my Dell laptop with Windows XP, it works great.
> But today I find a strange thing, I can not start telnet.
>
> In cygwin, after I run command, "telnet myMachine", it quietly returns,
> nothing happens.
>
> Then I go to DOS window and run the same command, it works fine.
>
> I come back to cygwin, and type "which telnet" and "type telnet", it is
> using windows telnet, here is the log,
>
> which telnet
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/telnet
>
> type telnet
> telnet is hashed (/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/telnet)
>
> Any clue why this happens?
WAG: no $SYSTEMROOT in your cygwin environment vars leading to winsock
initialisation failure?
cheers,
DaveK
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