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From:	Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To:	"'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: newbie
Date:	Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:07:05 +0530
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On Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii
[SMTP:eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il] wrote:
| 
| On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
| 
| > The version of bash I had did not have cp and so on as internal
| > commands,
| > thus being everything but echo, # and cd very slow (half a
| > second!).
| 
| Half a second for a cd??  On what system was that?  What CPU and OS?
| 
| 
| On my venerable P166 running Windows 95, "cd" is so instanteneous,
| I
| cannot even easily measure the time it takes.

I've noticed this happening on NT systems. I have no clue as to why that
happens. It happens rarely. Btw, this is on a PIII 800MHz with 256MB RAM and
_lots_ of space ;-).

Command like cd that don't need to run any exes work well. But the rest like
ls, pwd are all slow. No clue why that's so.
--
Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
Web: http://www.midpec.com/



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