Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:06:29 +0200 (IST)
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, 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!).

Half a second for a cd??  On what system was that?  What CPU and OS?

On my venerable P166 running Windows 95, "cd" is so instanteneous, I
cannot even easily measure the time it takes.