RE: FW: address@hidden

[Billinghurst, David (CRTS)]

cygwin is very slow to start when there are network drives in the path.  try
running octave with a path that excludes network directories.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Sturim [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 August 2000 5:32
> To:   A.T.E (S.A)
> Cc:   'address@hidden'
> Subject:      Re: FW: address@hidden
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> On the issue of being slow: I assume you mean that it takes a while to
> start up and plot.  We have done 4 installs and our home machines launch
> octave much faster then our work computers. One home computer is NT and
> the other is 98. Also the home computer are much less powerful in CPU
> power. Does cygwin32 do a network search?
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   Francois du Plessis
> > Sent:   Monday, August 28, 2000 12:24 PM
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> > Subject:        address@hidden
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> > Hi
> > I recently downloaded the complete Windows "install" of Octave version
> > 2.1.30 from Tom Weichmann's site and got it going quite easily on
> Windows
> > 95.  I am satisfied with the working of the software except that it is
> very
> > slow.  I also have some questions:
> > 
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> Douglas Sturim          Information Systems Technology Group
> address@hidden       MIT Lincoln Laboratory
> (781) 981-4462          Lexington, MA 02420-9185
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