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Subject:	Re: latex painfully slow
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From:	jmadams AT stsci DOT edu (John M. Adams)
Date:	Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:02:21 -0500
In-Reply-To:	<6.0.1.1.0.20040213210230.0392c798@127.0.0.1> (Larry Hall's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:03:25 -0500")
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Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> At 06:25 PM 2/13/2004, John M. Adams you wrote:
>>Dear Friends,
>>
>>Yesterday I updated cygwin and now latex is amazingly slow.  By this I
>>mean that its output comes out about 1 line per second.  You know,
>>stuff like this:
>>
>>I am not observing any other performance problems on the system.  So,
>>I wonder whether something is wrong with latex.
>>
>>Comments?
>
> Sure.  How about:
>
>>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Fair enough.  Not a cygwin problem.  It's a kpathsea behavior stemming
from having TEXINPUTS including "." and a sudden increase in the files
under that tree coinciding with a cygwin update.

My apologies.

-- 
John M. Adams


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