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From: pitts@flowbee.interaccess.com (James Pitts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: EMACS and FreeBSD 2.1-SNAP ... (funny)
Date: 25 Sep 1995 14:25:14 GMT
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For the record, this was the problem.  Thanks to all who replied.  I am
frankly a little suprised at myself that I didn't figure it out.

Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
: 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


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