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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 14 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

<snip>

>> To me this suggests that there could be a problem with getwinenv() but
>> I can't say more than that at the moment.
> 
> It's not in getwinenv afaics, but I don't know what the actual problem
> is so far.  It has something to do with the existance of the /a, /c etc
> mounts, though.  For now, removing the /a mount from /etc/fstab will help
> to get back to speed.  I'll try to figure out the cause of this problem.

Thanks Corinna. :-)

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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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