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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is emacs waiting for? Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 23:55:47 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <33951173.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> References: <3393186D.7DC8@nospam.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 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42302 Marvin Foster wrote: > > 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 Look in /etc/host.conf - what is first, hosts or bind? If bind, it's probably trying to talk to your name server to get your IP address. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.