From:	morche AT sat1 DOT de (Matthias Morche)
Subject:	Re: bash "pregnant pauses" revisited (B19 on NT 4.0)
16 Aug 1998 06:48:40 -0700 :
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To:	Arndt Schoenewald <arndt AT schoenewald DOT de>
Cc:	Cygwin32 Maillist <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Arndt Schoenewald wrote:
....
>     D:\>echo %PATH%
>     D:\Perl\5.00502\bin\MSWin32-x86-object;D:\Perl\5.00502\bin;D:\WINNT\system32;D:\WINNT
> 
> And this is from a fresh bash window launched via cygnus.bat:
> 
>     Cygnus Cygwin32 B19
>     bash-2.01$ echo $PATH
>     /Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin://D/Perl/5.00502/bin/MSWin32-x86-object://D/Perl/5.00502/bin://D/WINNT/system32://D/WINNT
>     bash-2.01$
> 
> But even if I had a stale network drive in PATH, this wouldn't explain
> why the prompt is often delayed when I just hit <RETURN> on an empty
> line -- why should the shell search the PATH when there's no command
> to execute and the prompt is a constant string?!
....
In my case it tried to interpret a Drive named Y as a hostname. Maybe
You should "mount -b D: /D", after that //D will be automatically
reduced to /D and can't be misunderstood as a hostname. Give it a try.
-- 
	Matthias Morche (mailto:morche AT sat1 DOT de)
		SAT.1 (http://www.sat1.de)

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