Trouble running awk & deployment of Cygwin

[Robert Pollard]

The fix on this particular machine was to use gawk instead of awk.

According to some of the suggestions I received, awk is a symlink to 
gawk anyway.  So, this should work fine.  I wonder why I was getting 
the error since nothing should have changed?

Also, contrary to what some believed I wasn't running awk from a DOS 
prompt.  I was running a bash shell script that was using the command.  
It worked on my machine but didn't work on another.

Thanks for all your help,

Robert

On May 10, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Robert Pollard wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> 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 happens when running it in any form including trying to get the 
> version: awk --version
>
> I don't know if this has any bearing on it but this particular version 
> of Cygwin was downloaded on one machine and I copied the Cygwin folder 
> on to the machine I am having this error on.
> I intend on putting Cygwin on Windows machines using an install 
> process and modifying registry entries as needed.
>
> I need suggestions and gotchas on doing this.  It is for deployment  
> for software we developed.  After having several different problems I 
> finally imported another user's registry and it started working for 
> the most part.
>
> I would appreciate tips or a place where there is a guide of some type 
> on deploying Cygwin in a non-interactive install process.  We want the 
> install to occur without user intervention.
>
> Thanks for all your help in advance,
>
> Robert Pollard
>
>
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