Re: LYNX-DEV Bugfix for DOS (version ac-0.108)

[Leonid Pauzner]

>      * From: address@hidden (Hasan Karahasan, DJ2xt)
[...]
> The fact is that - if lynx is busy with waiting saying "http request sent;
> waiting forresponse" - you _cannot exit_ from it. You can _only exit_ if lynx
> is idle. Lynx is idle, when it is not busy with loading or rendering. It is
> very important to exit from lynx also when it is busy. Say you have done a
> http request, and you are waiting for response. Then it can happen that you
> wait and wait because the net is to slow for the moment. There is no way to

Press "z" - it interrupts any transfer or "waiting for responce"
and force Lynx to idle state (you will wait a moment for rendering, though).
It is a standard track.

> interrupt lynx than making a warm reboot of your system. Okay, this maybe
> uninteresting for users in countries with no charge for local telefon calls.
> But in countrys with expensive local distance calls like germany it happens
> often that someone wants to continue with another link if the currently chosen
> comes to slow.