From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 14:35:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA07851 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.mexcom.net (mail.mexcom.net [206.103.64.9] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07841 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexcom.net (rafa.nix.mexcom.net [206.103.64.101]) by ns.mexcom.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA07415; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:33:52 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3415C136.7B533D72@mexcom.net> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 16:35:51 -0500 From: "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" Organization: Mexcom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-970811-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" CC: "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD References: <3414AACE.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <34158329.897F6171@opentech.stpn.soft.net> <3.0.3.32.19970909143327.006b36fc@midwest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 40 sec. is the strtup time for startwriter while I run netscape. BTW you can reduce the startup time by selecting a blank age in "growse starts with" at the general preferences menu. :) Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: > Is your network connection down when you start star office, On my system > whenever I open netscape, and my link is down there's 2 min delay or so, > Netscape is setup to access a local page first not anything that needs to > be resolved.... > > At 12:39 PM 9/9/97 -0500, you wrote: > >Prashant Dongre wrote: > > > >> 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. > >> > > >> > I posted this before, but with the interest in the current thread, > >> > thought I'd try again. > >> > > >> > My guess is that it's looking for something, a sound card (using > >> > a SB 16 here) or a network connection or whatever and it has to > >> > time out before it comes up. > >> > > >> > Anyone else having this problem? > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Jim Durham > >> > > >> > > >> > >> No... No problem like 3 mins wait for me.... > >> Prashant. > > > > For me (pentium 133, 34M, running netscape) 40 Sec. > > > > > >