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-: So there's some other reason for the slowness.

I'd like to try to confirm some of this behavior with bash
as the primary shell.

I tried to load bash as my primary shell using the following
approach (suggested by Giacomo Degli Esposti) with DOS 5:

Compile this C program (sets the DOS PATH so bash and cwsdpmi
can be found, and then exec's bash.exe) and place the executable
in the root directory.

/* go-bash.c */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <errno.h>

static char *args[]={"bash.exe","-login",NULL};

int main(void)
{
    char *path;

    path = getenv("PATH");
    printf("prior path is %s\n",path);

    putenv("PATH=c:\\djgpp\\bin");

    path = getenv("PATH");
    printf("posterior path is %s\n",path);

    printf("spawning bash as login shell...\n");
    return execvp("bash.exe",args);
}
/* end of go-bash.c */

I compiled the above using BCC:

	bcc -mt -G- -O -c go-bash.c -ogo-bash.obj
	tlink /t go-bash.obj,go-bash

then I changed the SHELL statement in CONFIG.SYS:

	shell=c:\c\dj\go-bash.exe

On reboot I see the before/after PATH messages, then the machine
simply hangs.  What have I overlooked?