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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:01:46 -0400
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Gene Smith wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote, On 06/22/2009 08:08 PM:

<snip>

>> There's also 1.7 - <http://cygwin.com/#beta-test>
> 
> I will take a look at this. By the way, on the weak laptop I mentioned 
> earlier, I get equal speed (and good speed) building a fairly big 
> program on msys and cygwin. The "system" process barely registers any 
> activity at all.
> 
> One other note. Although the cygwin speed is slow, all programs seem to 
> work OK.

Definitely a point understood.  I'm not sure what's getting in the way on
this problematic machine.  In that context, the reference to 1.7 is a
possible way to side-step the problem (or not ;-) ) but it certainly
doesn't pinpoint the issue.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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