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From: shore@light.lightlink.com (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP and EMACS
Date: 14 Jul 1997 13:26:22 -0400
Organization: Cayuga Whine Trail
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In article <33CA46A0.4D42@ix.netcom.com>,
Mike Hiromoto <badco@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I have finally got ppp to connect to my isp. I am using freebsd 2.2.2. I
>have ppp set to dial on demand. My problem is that now when I start
>emacs, ppp dials out!!??? Has anyone encountered this before? Help!!
Emacs does a dns lookup during startup. The simplest and
most thoroughly suboptimal way to get it to stop is to move
your /etc/resolv.conf out of the way.
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Melinda Shore - Cayuga Whine Trail - shore@lightlink.com
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