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From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr DOT volker DOT zell AT oracle DOT com>
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>>>>> Dan Tsafrir writes:

    > Hi,
    > It used to be the case that opening a postscript file with gv on
    > cygwin was more or less immediate. I've recently updated cygwin and
    > now it takes about 2-5 seconds (a clock is displayed while gv is
    > "thinking"). This happens even if the postscript file contains only a
    > few words. For example, if you do:

    >     % echo hello > hello.txt
    >     % a2ps hello.txt -o hello.ps
    >     % gv hello.ps

    > The gv version I have running is 3.6.5 (cygwin 1.5.25 on XP). I have
    > no way of telling whether this is a cygwin problem or something else.
    > But running the above example on a debian machine with a gv-3.6.5
    > installed results in an immediate, much snappier, response.

    > Is this just my problem? And if not, can something be done?

I cannot confirm this behaviour. .

    > Thanks,
    >     --Dan

Ciao
  Volker
  

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