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Re: LYNX-DEV cancel operation on resolves
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: LYNX-DEV cancel operation on resolves |
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Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:45:25 -0500 (EST) |
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> 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.
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> use ^z , which is made exactly to interrupt slow connections/downloads:
> the one time it doesn't work is when looking up a name.
don't you mean "z", not control/z?
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