RE: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs -- more about sockets, anyone?

2003-11-05 Thread Allen H. Nugent
Like some other users, I have been frustrated by the dependence of cygwin applications on an Internet connection that is only used so that the PC can talk to itself. As a dial-up user, this is most inconvenient. I tried turning ZoneAlarm off and disconnecting from the internet after launching s

Re: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs

2003-07-27 Thread Larry Hall
Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:57:31 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:35:04 -0500, Bill McCormick wrote: Martin Cohen Wrote: The reason for this is that my McAfee firewall was set (due to my mistake) to not allow emacs to access the

Re: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs

2003-07-27 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:57:31 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >Matthew O. Persico wrote: > >>On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:35:04 -0500, Bill McCormick wrote: >> >>>Martin Cohen Wrote: >>> The reason for this is that my McAfee firewall was set (due to my mistake) to not allow emacs to access the intern

Re: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs

2003-07-27 Thread Larry Hall
Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:35:04 -0500, Bill McCormick wrote: Martin Cohen Wrote: The reason for this is that my McAfee firewall was set (due to my mistake) to not allow emacs to access the internat. This caused the failure above. I do not know why emacs (and other applicat

RE: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs

2003-07-27 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:35:04 -0500, Bill McCormick wrote: >Martin Cohen Wrote: >>The reason for this is that my McAfee firewall was >>set (due to my mistake) to not allow emacs to access the >>internat. This caused the failure above. >> >>I do not know why emacs (and other applications, such as >>x

RE: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs

2003-07-27 Thread Bill McCormick
Martin Cohen Wrote: > I recently started a thread here with the following > message: > > >I installed cygwin in my D: partition under Win XP. > >Running startx results in the usual screen and the > >3 windows. However, when I type in my usual > >"emacs . &", I get this > > > >emacs: cannot connect