From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 8 23:43:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA08961 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ot.stpn.soft.net (freebie.opentech.stpn.soft.net [204.143.126.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA08930 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andes (andes.opentech.stpn.soft.net [204.143.126.66]) by ot.stpn.soft.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA12568; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:17:07 +0530 Message-ID: <34158329.897F6171@opentech.stpn.soft.net> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 12:11:06 -0500 From: Prashant Dongre Reply-To: pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Durham CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <3414AACE.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.