Re: Observation: setting HOME to / can lead to slow cygwin

2008-01-08 Thread Pete Forman
George Wyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running cygwin on my machine was quite slow, especially when starting bash and running man and info (2-5 seconds for each). I also noticed that nano complained it could not find the file //.nanorc You could try setting HOME to /. if you do not want

Re: Observation: setting HOME to / can lead to slow cygwin

2008-01-07 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, George Wyner wrote: I am running Cygwin 1.5.25 on Windows XP Professional (Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2) No longer sure why, but at some point I set my HOME directory to C:\cygwin Running cygwin on my machine was quite slow, especially when starting bash and