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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Martin Gainty" <mgainty AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cant run binaries in cygwin
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:52:31 -0000
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Martin Gainty wrote:
> Hello
> ./bin/my_print_defaults: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> What is cygwin doing to this binary to cause this error?
> How do I fix?


Last time someone got this error, they were trying to run Linux binaries
under Cygwin.

YOU CAN'T DO THIS!

Cygwin is a porting framework, not a binary emulator.

Max.


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