From: "Tom Dorgan" <tdorgan@yahoo.com> >> $ time ls -aF > <86 filenames deleted> > real 0m9.224s > user 0m0.060s > sys 0m0.090s this is what I get doing the same on /usr/bin. this is WinME, 1 Ghz Athlon. it is sluggish compared to the native dir. real 0m7.250s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple