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From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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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....
>
Hmmm..nope..on a T1, 24 hours a day. But...perhaps it is looking for the
StarOffice site for the browser functions? Perhaps there is a slow link
to StarOffice's site in Germany?
 
 >> 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.
> >> >
 > >>
> >>   No... No problem like 3 mins wait for me....
> >> Prashant.
> >
> >  For me (pentium 133, 34M, running netscape) 40 Sec.
> >
>
That's pretty long for what you have. This is just a 5X86 with 40 Megs
running 3.0-SNAP.


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