Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slow startup of psgml emacs

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

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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