Re: A check for 'break' or ^C would help a lot

Michael Gray (LabRat@i-link.net)
Sat, 25 May 1996 09:48:12 -0500

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!
>
>The next morning (the 15 hours later), I finally conceded to myself that
>I'd most likely never get around to reading even a few of the articles,
>so I decided to extinguish them with the C command. That only took a
>half hour.

This doesn't clean the articles out, it is a 'C'atch Up feature which
marks all messages as read. To actually remove the offending
articles, you have to run EXPIRE -r.

>When it finished marking everything 'read' I exited and went back into
>Yarn, hoping that would solidify the recent changes. Then I read and
>replied to several newsgroups prior to the cleaned out one, creating about
>six reply posts/letters. Noticing that the 'cleaned' group now showed 24
>articles, I again thoughtlessly [ =( ] pressed SPACE thinking it wouldn't
>take but a couple of seconds to load up the 24 articles for inspection.
>Hah! Another unbreakable look which had to be left running for 10 hours
>or so while away at work.

Since the articles are still in the news base, Yarn will go ahead and
read the history (I think) files, which takes a while to do. I admit
10 hours is a LONG time. But 12K articles is way more than in any of
my groups.

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