[419] in ad-lib
Re: Aborting an Advance Opac Search
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ninadm@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 25 15:06:03 1995
From: ninadm@MIT.EDU
To: gyoung@MIT.EDU (Grant Young ), opac-lib@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:59:23."
<9504251600.AA20903@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:05:42 EDT
Gee, I just aborted a search with no problem at all. Here's what I
did:
1. w=science [I figured this would be a nice long one.]
2. I hit the escape key (I'm sitting at my windows machine)
3. I got the following message at the bottom of my screen:
You INTERRUPTED the searching. Please select an option from below.
Options: Continue with the current task
Continue Quit New search Reset ? help
4. I selected "quit" and it kicked me right back to the main search
menu. No problem!
Nina
> 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
>
