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From:	"Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To:	"Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Bash extremely slow when started via task scheduler
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:32:49 +0100
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> >Why not use cron instead?
> >
> >Jason
>
> Thank you for suggestion but it's an application server managed by
> non-UNIX 'mouse users' which may manually start the task, so it should
> be simple for them.
>
> It seems that not having an output window slows down the script
> dramatically on each 'echo'.

I assume you are using Windows 2000? Could it be that Cygwin is waiting for
the caption of the console window to change, but it never does because it's
on a hidden desktop?

Chris


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