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> From: "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:28:15 -0500
> 
> This behavior isn't affected by the setting of
> ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program. With this set to t, it seems like
> emacs should be using dir rather than ls. It doesn't know where to find
> the ls.exe binary in cygwin.

That's a different problem, and it has an easy solution: modify the
value of the Path environment variable so that it includes the Cygwin
bin/ directory.