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From: "Churchill, Dan  (MN65)" <churchill_dan AT htc DOT honeywell DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: extremely slow after upgrade
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:27:52 -0500 
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Actually, not so weird.  As has been pointed out in recent threads, the //c
notation is now looking for a networked computer named "c" and the delay you
were experiencing is the timeout period while your computer looked for that
other computer name on your network.  Any version of Windows would have done
this, if I'm not mistaken.

--Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Court Demas [mailto:courtdemas AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 2:51 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: extremely slow after upgrade
> 
> 
> I found the problem!
> 
> I had a .bashrc with PATH statements that used the older 
> "//c/..." syntax.
>  I replaced them with "/cygdrive/c/..." and everything's back 
> to normal.
> 
> It still seems weird that this would hang the system for so 
> long...  but I
> guess that's 98 for you.
> 
> thanks,
> court

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