Re: ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Al Christians
Alexander Schremmer wrote: Windows tries to execute the cygwin symbolic link and fails. Correcting your path works (as you said). One thing about that: I re-installed python (ie upgraded to python 2.3.5) and it did not solve the error. I assume that the python 2.3.5 installer is so well-mannered

Re: ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Al Christians
Here's some more info on this: When I use the Win2k feature to search for files, it turns up python.exe in the \cygwin\bin directory. The file size is shown as 24 bytes. Mighty small for an executable. The file is hidden. This is evidently the guy who was caussing the problem. Why does cygw

Re: ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 11:00:08 -0700, Al Christians wrote: > I started having some problems running python programs (python 2.3) from > the Win2k command line. I would get crashes with an NTVDM error. Windows tries to execute the cygwin symbolic link and fails. Correcting your path works (as you

ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Al Christians
I started having some problems running python programs (python 2.3) from the Win2k command line. I would get crashes with an NTVDM error. Even just executing python would cause it. I upgraded to python 2.3.5, and no difference. When I rearranged my path to move cygwin and a bunch of other s