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From: Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com>
Subject:  Re: Observation:  setting HOME to "/" can lead to slow cygwin
Date:  Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:36:08 +0000
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George Wyner <gwyner@computer.org> writes:

 > Running cygwin on my machine was quite slow, especially when
 > starting bash and running man and info (2-5 seconds for each).
 > I also noticed that nano complained it could not find the file
 > "//.nanorc"

You could try setting HOME to "/." if you do not want to go the
"/home/gwyner" route.
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