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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