Windows executables not DOS in beta
Hi, I just updated to the latest beta on Vista and I get the following executing texexec.exe: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. Isn't this just a compiler switch? Would be helpful as I am calling texexec from a Tcl script. Christopher
I just updated to the latest beta on Vista and I get the following executing texexec.exe: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. I stumbled upon it in my XP box. I checked out on google and it seemed
Christopher G D Tipper wrote: that this bug had someting to do with the presence of multiple copies of cygwin1.dll in your executable path. However, wiping out all supplemental cygwin copies did not address the problem :-( Greetings, Max
Hello, I use contextminimals and todays update failed with the same message: context.exe: This program cannot be run in DOS mode greeting, Helmut Christopher G D Tipper schrieb am 01.12.2009 14:05:
Hi,
I just updated to the latest beta on Vista and I get the following executing texexec.exe: This program cannot be run in DOS mode.
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Massimiliano Lambertini wrote:
I just updated to the latest beta on Vista and I get the following executing texexec.exe: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. I stumbled upon it in my XP box. I checked out on google and it seemed
Christopher G D Tipper wrote: that this bug had someting to do with the presence of multiple copies of cygwin1.dll in your executable path.
However, wiping out all supplemental cygwin copies did not address the problem :-(
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No still not working. I've discounted the 'cygwin1.dll' issue as there are only two copies on my hard-disk and the non-Context one is definitely not on my path. Christopher Hans Hagen wrote:
Massimiliano Lambertini wrote:
I just updated to the latest beta on Vista and I get the following executing texexec.exe: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. I stumbled upon it in my XP box. I checked out on google and it seemed
Christopher G D Tipper wrote: that this bug had someting to do with the presence of multiple copies of cygwin1.dll in your executable path.
However, wiping out all supplemental cygwin copies did not address the problem :-(
new beta
----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
OK, further investigations suggests that ctxtools has been fixed but texexec returns the same message, "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." No problem, it's not urgent. Christopher Christopher G D Tipper wrote:
No still not working. I've discounted the 'cygwin1.dll' issue as there are only two copies on my hard-disk and the non-Context one is definitely not on my path.
Christopher
Hans Hagen wrote:
Massimiliano Lambertini wrote:
Christopher G D Tipper wrote:
I just updated to the latest beta on Vista and I get the following executing texexec.exe: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. I stumbled upon it in my XP box. I checked out on google and it seemed that this bug had someting to do with the presence of multiple copies of cygwin1.dll in your executable path.
However, wiping out all supplemental cygwin copies did not address the problem :-(
new beta
----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Christopher G D Tipper wrote:
No still not working. I've discounted the 'cygwin1.dll' issue as there are only two copies on my hard-disk and the non-Context one is definitely not on my path.
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participants (4)
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Christopher G D Tipper
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Hans Hagen
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Helmut Schwertner
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Massimiliano Lambertini