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Re: gv became really slow?
>>>>> Dan Tsafrir writes:
> Hi,
> It used to be the case that opening a postscript file with gv on
> cygwin was more or less immediate. I've recently updated cygwin and
> now it takes about 2-5 seconds (a clock is displayed while gv is
> "thinking"). This happens even if the postscript file contains only a
> few words. For example, if you do:
> % echo hello > hello.txt
> % a2ps hello.txt -o hello.ps
> % gv hello.ps
> The gv version I have running is 3.6.5 (cygwin 1.5.25 on XP). I have
> no way of telling whether this is a cygwin problem or something else.
> But running the above example on a debian machine with a gv-3.6.5
> installed results in an immediate, much snappier, response.
> Is this just my problem? And if not, can something be done?
I cannot confirm this behaviour. .
> Thanks,
> --Dan
Ciao
Volker
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