[Pine-info] Re: get out of Busy state

[Beartooth Staffwright]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:57:26 -0700, Tim K. (Gmane) wrote:


> Sometimes pine gets into this state where it shows "[Busy </> ]" 

> forever. Is there a way to stop it short of kill -9?


There is at least sometimes. Just now my remote inbox was hanging up on
that, and every time I tried to catch my chance to catch saying YES! to
break the connection, I missed either the very short time window, or maybe
sometimes hit T instead of Y. (That hand is about 50% disabled.)

I went poking around in MSC, searching timeouts and reading their help
screens, and got to this one : 

                        OPTION: Tcp-Query-Timeout

When Pine times out a network read or write it will normally just
display a message saying "Still waiting". However, if enough time
has elapsed since it started waiting it will offer to let you break
the connection. That amount of time is set by this option, which
defaults to 60 seconds, has a minimum of 5 seconds, and a maximum of
1000 seconds.

It had no value set; so I set it to 20. That helped. I think I'll cut it
to 5 -- unless I can find a way to quintuple the length of the time window
I have in which to tell it "Yes, in thunder." I hate sitting here with my
face hanging out. I hate it with a purple passion. Having to react
instantly, finger poised already on correct key, and still not succeed
half the time, intensifies the purple. I can't think of anything else in
all of pine that I so detest.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright
Squirreler & Wordcrafter
Not Quite Clueless FC5 Power User