-->"Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: davida> would it be reasonable to display some output during the davida> initial steps indicating that the script is working as davida> expected?
Akim> Not really. On a regular machine, it is much faster. Try Akim> installing a more modern shell, say Bash. You may hope for Akim> faster results. yeah, fair enough. if i get bored, i'll dig deeper into the source of the delay -- the difference between 2.13-generated scripts and 2.53-generated scripts seems to be many orders of magnitude, which to my mind could indicate a problem, but they run fast enough on my 1GHz desktop, so i take your point :-) thanks, d
