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

David> Another poster asked me what version of Cygwin I have. I David> updated "recently", probably several weeks ago. The DLL David> version is 1.3.2. APA> C-u M-! uname -a APA> will insert your cygwin information in the current buffer. APA> I do have cygwin installed, and it is ... APA> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 D5DC120J 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown Interestingly, after I restarted my XEmacs, which had been running for quite a while, I don't see this issue. I was able to insert both of the following lines using "shell-command-on-region", with almost no delay. CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WONDARK 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown Sat Aug 11 12:16:17 2001 I'm still unable to update my packages, however. -- =================================================================== David M. Karr ; Best Consulting dmkarr(a)earthlink.net ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004)