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Dired uses an internal lisp implementation of ls by default
on Windows. For consistent display of symbolic links and other
information with other programs (eg Cygwin) and performance reasons,
you may want to use a Windows port of ls instead.
(setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program t) ;; use external ls (setq insert-directory-program "c:/cygwin/bin/ls") ;; ls program name