Trouble running awk & deployment of cygwin

[Christopher Faylor]

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

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