----Original Message---- >From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen >Sent: 04 April 2005 08:57
> Bernhard Ege writes: > >> I tried running latex with strace: >> >> $ strace latex >> One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code >> >> And a windows saying: >> Title: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem >> ~ >> The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. > > That's odd, comparing it with gdb This is symptomatic of attempting to execute ASCII text as x86 opcodes. I suspect strace has opened the symlink rather than the actual latex exe! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/