[416] in ad-lib
Re: Aborting an Advance Opac Search
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Young )
Tue Apr 25 12:00:47 1995
To: "Margo M. Miller" <mmmiller@MIT.EDU>
Cc: opac-lib@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 11:59:23
From: gyoung@MIT.EDU (Grant Young )
I don't believe that the system can be told to abort a search. Normally,
say on athena, if you do something you want to stop you can do a CTRL-C to
tell the program you want to abort what it's doing and return to a command
prompt. All of Advance is that program. If you were able to stop it from
working you'd end up a Unix command prompt which is an unacceptable
security risk so you're prevented from doing it.
In order to allow you to abort searches they build in those timeouts. We
can adjust their length if they're too long but that potentially slows down
how a long search so we have to strike a balance.
-- Grant
