From: rcrampton AT armature DOT com (Robin Crampton) Subject: bash pausing and text v binary mounting 12 Jun 1998 14:48:17 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com From the FAQ: Long pause occurs randomly in bash =========================== It has been reported that bash will hang for several seconds upon occasion. We are looking into this problem. It does not seem to occur when bash is started under a command prompt. Reportedly, if you specify the 'Start in' directory in the shortcut, the problem goes away. Any progress? To get a "Start in" text box I need to create a shortcut to bash.exe rather than cygnus.bat. I don't want to do this because it means setting a longer path in autoexec.bat (to include the cygnus stuff). Also, bash always pauses for a few seconds after executing the last line of my .bash_login, whether started from the desktop shortcut or from a DOS box. More from the FAQ: The '-b' option mounts in binary mode. If you want to put the release onto a drive that's not drive 'C', then you *have* to use the `mount' command if you want to make progress. Eg, assume that you've installed the tree into `f:/fish', so that the binaries live in `f:/fish/bin' etc. $ mount f:/fish /usr This means that when you type `ls /usr/bin', cygwin.dll will look in `f:/fish/bin'. Well, I installed in d:\cygwin32, so I did the mount. Everything works. But what's the difference between text and binary mounting? Thanks. GNU-Win32. Now I can finish my waveform sequencer without hacking around with DJGPP and device drivers... - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".