From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
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Subject: Re: newbie
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Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk> schrieb Folgendes:
> 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.

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.
BTW, xcopy is just as slow when run from bash.

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