From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: slow response in explorer when looking at djgpp\bin etc
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:49:05 GMT
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:49:05 GMT
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 04:12:04 GMT, "Andrew Jones"
<luminous-is AT home DOT com> wrote:

>> I have McAfee, and it does the same thing: whenever I compile or run a
>> DJGPP EXE, the system freezes for about one second, and browsing to a
>> folder takes (num of DJGPP EXEs in folder) seconds.  Turning off some
>> of the scan options speeds things up.
>
>I don't know why you have problems, unless you both have exceedingly slow
>systems, but on my pokey p200, it reads the djgpp/bin directory with no
>problems.  Part of it might that, with a normal djgpp installation, there's
>between 20-50MB of executables, and windows would scan each one to see if it's
>a windows exe (thus having an icon file in its resource section to load).
>That's the only thing I can think of.

When Windows opens it to see if it's a Win32 EXE, McAfee traps the
open to see if there are any viruses inside.

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