Hi The latest gawk-3.1.1-4 packaging is kind of strange:
drwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/ drwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/bin/ lrwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/bin/awk -> gawk -rwxrwxrwx cgf/group 240640 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/bin/gawk-.exe lrwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/bin/gawk.exe -> gawk-.exe -rwxrwxrwx cgf/group 3004 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/bin/igawk -rwxrwxrwx cgf/group 241152 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/bin/pgawk-.exe lrwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-10-07 22:08:31 usr/bin/pgawk.exe -> pgawk-.exe awk, gawk are effectively symlinks to gawk-.exe and when trying to call either awk or gawk from a cmd box it results in a popup window: C:\WINNT\System32\cmd.exe - gawk The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. Maybe this can be changed back to the packaging schema of gawk-3.1.1-3 ?? Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/