Re: Observation: setting HOME to "/" can lead to slow cygwin

2008-01-08 Thread Pete Forman
George Wyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running cygwin on my machine was quite slow, especially when > starting bash and running man and info (2-5 seconds for each). > I also noticed that nano complained it could not find the file > "//.nanorc" You could try setting HOME to "/." if you do

Re: Observation: setting HOME to "/" can lead to slow cygwin

2008-01-07 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, George Wyner wrote: > I am running Cygwin 1.5.25 on Windows XP Professional (Ver 5.1 Build > 2600 Service Pack 2) > > No longer sure why, but at some point I set my HOME directory to > C:\cygwin > > Running cygwin on my machine was quite slow, especially when starting > bash an

Observation: setting HOME to "/" can lead to slow cygwin

2008-01-07 Thread George Wyner
I am running Cygwin 1.5.25 on Windows XP Professional (Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2) No longer sure why, but at some point I set my HOME directory to C:\cygwin Running cygwin on my machine was quite slow, especially when starting bash and running man and info (2-5 seconds for each). I al