Timeout for reading file across network

[Ali Pang]

Hi,

I'd like to load my .emacs from a remote location if possible. The problem
is I'm on windows, and the time-out before recognizing that the file is
unavailable is ridiculously long (minutes). Thus if the file is unavailable,
emacs blocks for a long time at startup. I've tried basically doing

(if (with-timeout (4) 
      (file-exists-p remote-.emacs))
  (load remote-.emacs))

but I guess with-timeout does not do what I want. Any ideas about what I
could use instead?
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