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Re: bash "pregnant pauses" revisited (B19 on NT 4.0)




Have you unset the MAILCHECK variable yet?  This variable will cause
delays trying to find `mail'.  The value of MAILCHECK is a time delay
between checks.  You need to _remove_ the environment variable to stop
the searching for mail.


---Arndt Schoenewald <arndt@schoenewald.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 06:55:37PM +0200, Matthias Morche wrote:
> 
> > Please, give us a dump of Your PATH as seen by the bash from within
> > cygnus.bat. I've got similar problems before I tweaked my PATH.
> > Obviously cygwin tried to interpret some element of the path as a
> > hostname.
> 
> Well, this is what I checked first (I have read all the messages
from July
> regarding delays caused by name lookups for DOS-style path names).
> 
> Anyway, this is what I get in a newly opened CMD.EXE window:
> 
>     Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM)
>     (C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp.
> 
>     D:\>echo %PATH%
>    
D:\Perl\5.00502\bin\MSWin32-x86-object;D:\Perl\5.00502\bin;D:\WINNT\system32;D:\WINNT
> 
> And this is from a fresh bash window launched via cygnus.bat:
> 
>     Cygnus Cygwin32 B19
>     bash-2.01$ echo $PATH
>    
/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin://D/Perl/5.00502/bin/MSWin32-x86-object://D/Perl/5.00502/bin://D/WINNT/system32://D/WINNT
>     bash-2.01$ 
> 
> But even if I had a stale network drive in PATH, this wouldn't explain
> why the prompt is often delayed when I just hit <RETURN> on an empty
> line -- why should the shell search the PATH when there's no command
> to execute and the prompt is a constant string?!
> 
> Still wondering,
> Arndt
> 
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