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Author: David Nichols Drdave
Posted: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:25:38 -0500
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> "Sometimes when I do a MedLine search, the search hangs up and nothing
> happens."
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> Dave, to answer your question we need to know what edition you are
> using (9.5? 10? 11? Individual or Network?) and how you have your F11
> options set up. It would also help to know if you are accessing the
> Internet through a dial-up modem, DSL, cable modem, T1, T3, through a
> Purdue server or through AOL, etc. etc. etc.
I have RefMan 10, don't know about the f11 options, and use a T1 fast
connection through the Purdue server.
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> In terms of F11 (Options), I strongly recommend you UNCHECK
> "Automatically display the Internet search result". The software will
> then tell you how many items it's found at NML--an important
> consideration. If it's three figures or more, you probably want to
> cancel importing them and go back to your search and add a line or two
> of further constraints.
That's a good idea in any case. With RM 9 it seemed to tell me how many
there were and I would cancel it after it downloaded a hundred or so.
With RM 10 I set it to download a max of 200. But it would be nice to know
how many it found. I really don't have many bells and whistles set on RM.
Usually just searching MedLine, generating databases for grants and
publications, and writing manuscripts for scientific journals. If I don't
use options often, I don't remember what they are.
> If you are truly timing out, the reportage screen that pops up will
> tell you that. Capture it (with a screen shot if nothing else).
It would time out. It doesn't do this all the time, just intermittently.
It would say it was waiting on a reply from the server, and nothing would
happen. I'd hit cancel to end the program, and nothing would happen.
Then I'd have to sit for a minute or two and it would time out. Just seemed
to me like if I hit "cancel" that it should abort the operation immediately.
Thanks!
dave
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