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

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 to X server :0.0.

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 xclock) need

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

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 internat. This caused the

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