From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: bash "pregnant pauses" revisited (B19 on NT 4.0) 18 Aug 1998 22:51:52 -0700 Message-ID: <19980817115254.7151.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send103.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Arndt Schoenewald , Matthias Morche Cc: Cygwin32 Maillist Have you unset the MAILCHECK variable yet? This variable will cause delays trying to find `mail'. The value of MAILCHECK is a time delay between checks. You need to _remove_ the environment variable to stop the searching for mail. ---Arndt Schoenewald wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 06:55:37PM +0200, Matthias Morche wrote: > > > Please, give us a dump of Your PATH as seen by the bash from within > > cygnus.bat. I've got similar problems before I tweaked my PATH. > > Obviously cygwin tried to interpret some element of the path as a > > hostname. > > Well, this is what I checked first (I have read all the messages from July > regarding delays caused by name lookups for DOS-style path names). > > Anyway, this is what I get in a newly opened CMD.EXE window: > > Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM) > (C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp. > > D:\>echo %PATH% > D:\Perl\5.00502\bin\MSWin32-x86-object;D:\Perl\5.00502\bin;D:\WINNT\system32;D:\WINNT > > And this is from a fresh bash window launched via cygnus.bat: > > Cygnus Cygwin32 B19 > bash-2.01$ echo $PATH > /Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin://D/Perl/5.00502/bin/MSWin32-x86-object://D/Perl/5.00502/bin://D/WINNT/system32://D/WINNT > bash-2.01$ > > But even if I had a stale network drive in PATH, this wouldn't explain > why the prompt is often delayed when I just hit on an empty > line -- why should the shell search the PATH when there's no command > to execute and the prompt is a constant string?! > > Still wondering, > Arndt > > -- > Arndt Schoenewald (arndt AT schoenewald DOT de) > IT Technology & Solutions Integrator > Ostenhellweg 31, 44135 Dortmund, Germany > Tel: +49 231 556075 > Fax: +49 231 556049 > - > 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". > == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - 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".