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Re: Speed of Cygwin's cp vs. Windows Explorer
- From: Brian Ford <Brian dot Ford at FlightSafety dot com>
- To: Bob Heckel <bheckel at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:08:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: Speed of Cygwin's cp vs. Windows Explorer
- References: <942b10df0705120623r391f6bdeg7aaf5643901a03b0@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Bob Heckel wrote:
> Why would using Cygwin's cp to copy a large file from one Windows XP
> box to another take 30 minutes but take only 10 minutes if I use drag
> 'n' drop (via Explorer)?
>
> I saw mention of speed in other posts but couldn't figure out if there
> was a solution - could it be buffer sizes or something configurable?
>
> I'm in a position of defending the use of Cygwin instead of the manual
> Windows way of doing things by those not familiar with Unix. Any
> hints would be appreciated.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00911.html
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Brian Ford
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FlightSafety International
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