From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
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Subject: Re: newbie
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> schrieb Folgendes:
> > From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:43:43 +0100
> > 
> > xcopy is also external and just as slow as cp when called from bash. Looks
> > to me that bash needs to initialize DPMI and exit from DPMI everytime it
> > runs an external program. I do have cp.exe.
> 
> The DJGPP port of Bash does not initialize DPMI or exit from it when
> it runs external programs.
> 
> So there's some other reason for the slowness.

The reason is that we were talking about two different bash versions: I
meant the cygwin one and thought it was the same. Sorry.

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