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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: AppleLink--PE: aborting things
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Date: 25 Oct 88 05:42:12 GMT
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>Date:         Mon, 24 Oct 88 12:59:17 GMT
>From:         Doug Gwyn <adm!smoke!gwyn@NYU.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: advantages of AppleLink--PE

>But apparently you can't abort the transfer of a message into your
>AppleLink text buffer.  If you ask for, say, technical information
>and upon seeing the first few lines you realize it's not what you
>wanted, you have to wait for the WHOLE THING to finish downloading
>before you can escape.  When it runs on for several pages, that is
>yet another expensive waste of time.

(Aren't they sending out manuals these days?)

Apple-Period will work very nicely in that situation.  It will also abort
a sign-on sequence, or actually almost *anything* that you might want to
abort.  If a long menu is getting filled in across the phone and you just
want one of the first options anyway, you can Apple-Period to make it
stop.  Same goes for categories and topics inside the "Let's Discuss..."
areas of forums.

--David A. Lyons              bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs
  DAL Systems                 CompuServe:  72177,3233
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