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From: Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: newbie
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:29:25 +0530 
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On Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii
[SMTP:eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il] wrote:
| 
| > I've noticed this happening on NT systems. I have no clue as to
| > why that
| > happens. It happens rarely. Btw, this is on a PIII 800MHz with
| > 256MB RAM and
| > _lots_ of space ;-).
| > 
| > Command like cd that don't need to run any exes work well. But the
| > rest like
| > ls, pwd are all slow. No clue why that's so.
| 
| Note that the OP was talking specifically about `cd'.

Yes, I did notice that. I just happened to remember this problem when I read
the OP's message, so I thought I'll post it.

Perhaps the system the OP is using has very less memory.
--
Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
Web: http://www.midpec.com/



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