Re: A check for 'break' or ^C would help a lot
John A. Stanley (jstanley@gate.net)
Sat, 25 May 1996 07:52:42 -0400
In article <npqpxY9IClrV089yn@ritz.mordor.com>,
w2jc@ritz.mordor.com (-) wrote:
>Yesterday I ran into a scenario which I think calls for a
>remedy by Chin... ;) Here's what happened:
>
>Having accumulated a newsgroup in Yarn 0.89 with over 12,000 articles,
>I thoughtlessly pressed SPACE thinking I would load them in and clean
>out the spams and garbage at least. Ouch! 3 hours later the '386 was
>still exercising the disk drive, and ^C nor ESC nor any other trick I
>could think of would BREAK the process. FIFTEEN hours later, the process
>ended properly -- and of course then exercised all the stop/break commands
>from much earlier, so the entire time was a waste!
Personally, I would have three finger saluted the hell out of
Yarn.
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John A. Stanley jstanley@gate.net