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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
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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.