Re: shell-command-on-region takes 60 secs and huge memory for simple process

APA> David, please give me the output of (emacs-version) APA> "XEmacs 21.5 (beta2) \"artichoke\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Tue Jul APA> 31 2001 on D5DC120J" APA> is what I get. I'll try this again. I somehow managed to get XEmacs killed while writing this note the first time. "21.4 (patch 4) \"Artificial Intelligence\" XEmacs Lucid" APA> I compared your *ftp ...* buffer to mine and your's contains excessive ftp> APA> prompts which I don't have. APA> Which ftp do you use? The "ftp" from /usr/bin is in the path before the Windows version. APA> I had to move the cygwn ftp.exe out of the way! APA> I am using (which ftp): APA> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/SYSTEM32/ftp APA> Under c:\cygwin\bin I just renamed ftp.exe to ftp.exe.orig. I tried doing this, but if possible, it works even worse than the Cygwin version. When I try to do something with it, I get a dialog box that says something like "ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org not a pty, kill?". Do I have to restart XEmacs after moving it out of the way? I hope that moving Cygwin's out of the way isn't a permanent solution. APA> David, with a proper download site selected, try this: APA> M-x package-get-update-base This prompts me with: Load package-get database: /ftp.xemacs.org:pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp When I press return, I get the stack trace: Signaling: (error "Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp' not readable") signal(error ("Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp' not readable")) cerror("Package-get database file `%s' not readable" "/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") apply(cerror "Package-get database file `%s' not readable" "/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") error("Package-get database file `%s' not readable" "/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") #<compiled-function (&optional db-file force-current) "...(62)" [force-current buf db-file expand-file-name package-get-locate-index-file file-exists-p error "Package-get database file `%s' does not exist" file-readable-p "Package-get database file `%s' not readable" get-buffer-create "*package database*" (...) erase-buffer insert-file-contents-literally package-get-update-base-from-buffer file-remote-p package-get-maybe-save-index] 3 ("/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/lisp/package-get.elc" . 10716) (let (...) (list ...))>("/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") call-interactively(package-get-update-base) command-execute(package-get-update-base t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) -- =================================================================== David M. Karr ; Best Consulting dmkarr(a)earthlink.net ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004)