Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:43:58 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Trouble running awk & deployment of cygwin Message-ID: <20040510204358.GA18418@coe.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:41:52AM -0700, Robert Pollard wrote: >I ran into a problem with Cygwin whilst trying to run awk. I get the >error: >The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. >CS:080c IP:554c OP:63 69 66 69 65 Choose 'Close' to terminate the >application This indicates that you are trying to run awk from a non-cygwin process. awk is a cygwin symbolic link to gawk. Cygwin symbolic links are not understood by regular windows programs. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/