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Re: cant run binaries in cygwin


so...cygwin CANNOT run binaries?
uh oh!
Thanks!
Marty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
To: "Martin Gainty" <mgainty at hotmail dot com>; <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: cant run binaries in cygwin


> Martin Gainty wrote:
> > Hello
> > ./bin/my_print_defaults: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> > What is cygwin doing to this binary to cause this error?
> > How do I fix?
> 
> 
> Last time someone got this error, they were trying to run Linux binaries
> under Cygwin.
> 
> YOU CAN'T DO THIS!
> 
> Cygwin is a porting framework, not a binary emulator.
> 
> Max.
> 
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