X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f From: Martin Str|mberg Message-Id: <200112271353.OAA16101@father.ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: lfn from scratch... In-Reply-To: from Eli Zaretskii at "Dec 27, 2001 10:45:55 am" To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:53:07 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk According to Eli Zaretskii: > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > We could say "if you're out on the net, expect a slowdown". > > In some not-so-rare cases, that slowdown could be 1 min or more, if > the network is down or a network drive is inaccessible. > > E.g. try "ls \\nonexistent\machine" some day. Yes. And your point is? (How would ever make _that_ work?) Right, MartinS