Subject: 3.92 suggestion

From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:24:30 -0800

In pine 3.92 (IRIX 4.05) there is a handly little spinning ASCII "clock"
which tells you when there are delays accessing files. I like this feature
since it lets you know that pine hasn't crashed as it waits for minutes on
end for an NNTP server to respond. However, I find it even more
frustrating to know that the program is still running, but I still can't
do anything. I would like to be able to hit a key or key combo to tell the
program to stop whatever it is doing that is taking so long and let me go
try something else.

				Ian Ollmann

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:30:53 -0800 (PST)

> program to stop whatever it is doing that is taking so long and let me go

There are some places where we haven't found a feasible and/or
portable way to interrupt whatever Pine is working on.  But in many
places, you can press ^C to interrupt a long process...

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