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Adding "title" to the CYGWIN variable (e.g., CYGWIN = title) in 
Cygwin.bat as per the user manual gives a tremendous psychological 
advantage, lowering the slow start pain, as one can see that things are 
really happening.  "ls" is working perfectly fine -- I will reboot if I 
ever see it behave slowly again compared to Windows native "dir" command.

Burt Silverman wrote:
> Just confirming Bruno DeLoroux observation that cygwin starts very 
> very slowly on some Windows XP installations.  And "ls" is fairly 
> slow.  My Desktop PC is generally faster than my laptop, but the 
> situation is reversed with regards to these cygwin activities; startup 
> is painful on the Desktop.
>
> Burt
>

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