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Re: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem -- The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction
- From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke at scytek dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:08:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem -- The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction
- References: <001401c1edd4$57d45f30$0200a8c0@dragon>
Hi!
Vsevolod Buzinov wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I has encountered an NTVDM CPU error while trying to make a cygwin hosted
> linux crossgcc compiler.
> I wonder if it is a known issue and is there any way to deal with this?
Yes, you get such an error when you try to start a cygwin program with a
symlink to this program under Win2k cmd.exe (no cygwin aware shell). Eg.
tar is a link to gtar.exe, or zcat to gzip.exe.
Solution: remove the link, copy the program.
Bye
Volker
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