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Re: Slow startup of psgml emacs
- From: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>
- To: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at canada dot com>
- Cc: "Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" <dave at bcs dot co dot nz>,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:15:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs
- References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020516142616.0290ffa0@pop3.bcs.co.nz><m2d6vwg23r.fsf@maya.dyndns.org>
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:15:20AM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> If you have XEmacs, be aware that it does some sort of DNS lookup when
> it starts; XEmacs "phones home" every time it is launched and if you
> are on a dialup connection, it will wait for a connection before it
> comes up, and if you are off-line it will wait until the DNS request
> times out. Very very annoying and I wish I knew how to turn it off.
[off topic] I also experienced this behaviour (with dialup) when
running gnuclient to use an existing xemacs process. Not sure what it
indicates.
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