filePro 5.8 bombing

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Bill Campbell via Filepro-list averred (on Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 01:05:53PM -0800):
| On Sun, Dec 27, 2015, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
| >
| >I now find that while any fP binary (runmenu, ddir, dclerk, etc.)
| >immediately produce a blank screen which reponds to no keystroke, after
| >about three minutes the expected behavior starts to take place and the
| >program functions normally.
| >
| >So what might be happening to cause that long pause?
| 
| Long pauses often are the result of DNS issues.

Ah, yes, that may well be the problem.

I only installed the OS five days ago, and do have it on my
agenda to ditch /etc/hosts in favor of a proper DNS setup.

-- 
JP