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Date:	Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:50:50 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Chuck DOT Irvine AT mail DOT sprint DOT com
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, ntemacs-users AT cs DOT washington DOT edu
Subject:	Re: awk permissions related problem - manual-entry --> awk: permission
	denied
References:	<H00009db08493dd7 DOT 0980645169 DOT kcopmp06 AT MHS>

Chuck DOT Irvine AT mail DOT sprint DOT com wrote:
> 
> I recently (a week or two ago) downloaded a newer verion of cygwin and
> now I'm unable to use the ntemacs command "manual-entry" (used to
> display man pages). When I invoke this command, emacs complains "awk:
> permission denied; process exited abnormally with code 126". I checked
> permissions on /bin/awk, which is a symbolic link to /bin/gawk, and
> they are lrw-r--r--. Permissions on gawk are -rwxr-xr-x. I tried
> setting CYGWIN to ntsec and adding execute permission to awk, but this
> didn't solve my problem.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 

What happens if you
  cd /bin
  rm awk
  ln -s gawk.exe awk.exe
?

Why not just change the script to #!/bin/gawk ?

Earnie.

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