From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: newbie
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:07:58 +0000
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rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer) wrote:

> The version of bash I had did not have cp and so on as internal commands,
> thus being everything but echo, # and cd very slow (half a second!). I got
> bash from the cygwin package.

BASH does not have a builtin `cp', for this you need the GNU file
utils fil316b.zip.  The DJGPP port of BASH is in bsh203b.zip.