From: zeil@cs.odu.edu (Steven J. Zeil) Subject: Re: bash: startup time 20 Mar 1998 14:51:08 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Earnie Boyd Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Steven J. Zeil wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > Something else to try is to "mount -b c:\\ /c". > > > That did the trick. Thanks. > > I notice that, after having done this, my $path is > translated using /c instead of / (e.g., /c/WINDOWS instead of /WINDOWS). > Certainly that won't hurt anything, but I wonder if it was something in > the code that translates "inherited" environment variables that was taking > so long. > > Steve Zeil > > Don't you just hate it when you post something and then realize immediately afterwards that it was utter nonsense? To answer my own question, no, it probably isn't the $path and other environment variable translation that was taking the time, as that would have had to been done no matter what directory bash was launched from. Steve Zeil - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".