Subject: ESCAPING A COMMAND

From: Thom Scott <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:41:56 -0500 (EST)

Occasionally when I try to read news from our news server which is a
remote machine I run into a problem.  If the news server is down for some
reason or a connection cannot be made PINE seems to lock up at least until
the connection attempt times out.  Is there some way to cancel such a
command should I experience a delay without having to just wait for Pine
to give up trying? I'm sure there must be something I'm overlooking.

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From: Tony Calguire <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:04:21 -0600

> to give up trying? I'm sure there must be something I'm overlooking.

I'd like to know about this, too.  I'm pretty sure there is no way to 
interrupt Pine once it gets going with a task.

I'd like to suggest that this would make a great new feature for the next 
version of Pine.  Netscape has a "stop" button.  Lynx has control-g.  
Pine needs some sort of keystroke that will interrupt searches, sorting 
operations, and remote folder lookups in the event that these types of 
activities take too long.

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