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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EMACS and FreeBSD 2.1-SNAP ... (funny) Date: 25 Sep 1995 06:18:03 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <445hir$9q9@reason.cdrom.com> References: <4410av$kmf@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: pitts@flowbee.interaccess.com X-URL: news:4410av$kmf@nntp.interaccess.com pitts@flowbee.interaccess.com (James Pitts) wrote: >After this, I installed some packages on the machine, including EMACS. >Everything seemed to be just fine until I went to edit a file with emacs. >EMACS started to come up, then the modem dialed my provider, established a >ppp connection, exchanged some packets when someone somewher, and then >let me edit the file. Now I can't use emacs without establishing a ppp >connection. :/ You probably have bind before hosts in /etc/host.conf and it's going over DNS to look up your own hostname.. :-) -- Jordan