Subject: Interrupting wait for news server

From: Tom Phoenix <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 16:27:13 -0800

Sometimes the news server on my site is slow to respond, so Pine seems to 
hang. Is there any way to interrupt Pine, so I can get back to more 
interesting things?

I can use 'kill' to send a signal to Pine, but I don't want to kill it; I 
just want to wake it up! ;-)

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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 01:55:55 -0500 (EST)

> just want to wake it up! ;-)
 
Our users who read newsgroups with Pine report a similar problem,
especially when they try to go to their folder lists.  If communication
with our news server (which is remote) hits a snag, Pine sits there
forever with a "Building folder list" message.  The only way out is 
Ctrl-C, or wait for the news server to come back to life.
 
Can we have a more elegant solution in 3.92?
 
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