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- From: biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Emacs3.0 on a standalone (solution)
- Message-ID: <BzoCF0.AMJ@biff.gbdata.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:52:11 GMT
- References: <009652A7.0C3D0EF4@VIOLET.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>
- Sender: biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart)
- Distribution: na,local
- Lines: 39
-
- I replied via email to the poster with a suggestion and found that it was the
- correct solution, so I'm posting my reply here:
-
- In article <009652A7.0C3D0EF4@VIOLET.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>
- citdem@VIOLET.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU writes:
- >Emacs3.0 (and prior versions) always displays a "unknown host "(my
- >host name)"" message in the minibuffer when I start it. The mouse
- >cannot be used to control the cursor. The menu FILE and EDIT options
- >do nothing. All other .apps work just fine. So what's wrong here?
-
- I had the same problem when I first installed Emacs 2.0. (I'm running
- Emacs 2.1 now -- I'm waiting to upgrade to NextStep 3.1 rather than
- 3.0). My memory is a bit hazy, but the problem had to do with Emacs
- trying to get my IP address through my hostname. Since I'm not on any
- networks, I just added an entry to the hosts directory in netinfo
- giving my hostname the IP address of localhost. I left localhost in
- there since some programs expect it to be there. The resulting file
- looks like this:
-
- $ nidump hosts .
- 127.0.0.1 biff
- 127.0.0.1 localhost
- 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
-
- (Biff is my hostname.) But since you're on a network, I think you
- would have to put your real IP address in there, instead of 127.0.0.1.
- But I assume you had to do that to get SLIP to work.
-
- I hope this helped at least a bit. I don't think your problem is with
- SLIP itself. Good luck.
-
-
- The poster used HostManager to add his system as a host, and now Emacs works
- fine.
-
- --
- Dwight Everhart
- biff@biff.gbdata.com (NextMail and MIME OK)
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