Re: LYNX-DEV cancel operation on resolves

[Philip Webb]

980103 Scott McDermott wrote: 
> on a host resolution where the query seems to be lost somehow,
> eg a non-responding host, it starts resolving and just sits there
> for a long while before it will return an error.
> While there is probably a timeout setting for this,
> I miss the universal cancel  ^g , which doesn't work in this situation.

use  ^z , which is made exactly to interrupt slow connections/downloads:
the one time it doesn't work is when looking up a name.

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