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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:09:53 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen
>Sent: 04 April 2005 08:57

> Bernhard Ege writes:
> 
>> I tried running latex with strace:
>> 
>> $ strace latex
>> One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code
>> 
>> And a windows saying:
>> Title: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
>> ~
>> The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.
> 
> That's odd, comparing it with gdb


  This is symptomatic of attempting to execute ASCII text as x86 opcodes.  I
suspect strace has opened the symlink rather than the actual latex exe!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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