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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:49:25 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD
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On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Jim Durham wrote:
> A number of people commented that StarOffice works quite nicely
> under FreeBSD, and it does...except for one problem that must
> be happening here only because no one mentioned it. Any time I
> start a StarOffice application, it "pauses" for 3 minutes before
> it comes up, then runs fine.

Yes, others, including myself, have seen that.  It appears to be
related to DNS lookups.  I wish that I could understand when it does
and when it doesn't.

Greg