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From: Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: What is emacs waiting for?
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 14:01:01 -0500
Organization: Bell Northern Research
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I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my PC, and did a pkg_add to install
emacs-19.34b. When I run emacs, instead of coming right up, it pauses
for a long time (over a minute I think, but I haven't timed it). During
this time, I can tell (by looking at the LEDs on the UTP hub which this
PC is attached to) that some small message is being sent on the
network every few seconds, but nothing is responding. I've never seen
emacs wait for something on the network before coming up. Does
anyone know what this is all about, and how I go about fixing it
so that it behaves normally? I certainly don't want to have to
twiddle my thumbs for a minute every time I want to edit a file.