Support : Dialog Search Aids : Successful Searching : LOGOFF HOLD

LOGOFF HOLD

Use LOGOFF HOLD to interrupt a search and disconnect your computer terminal from Dialog without losing the sets you have created since your last BEGIN command. LOGOFF HOLD disconnects your terminal exactly like LOGOFF, but the workspace (representing your connection to a database and the sets created there) is held for 30 minutes.

Within this 30-minute period, you can reconnect to your search by logging on through the same connection (e.g., telecommunications network, World Wide Web, telnet) used in the first session, and entering the same Dialog user number and password as before. Enter a DISPLAY SETS (DS) command to review the sets created prior to the LOGOFF HOLD.

Note: A reconnect places you in the same database and at the same point in your search as when you entered the LOGOFF HOLD. To continue in this search, do not enter a BEGIN command because this will erase all existing sets. DISPLAY SETS is recommended to review your sets before continuing with your search. (See also the PAUSE command.)

• To disconnect from Dialog, hold your search for 30 minutes, reconnect, log on through the same connection (e.g., telecommunications network, World Wide Web, telnet) as before, and the Dialog computer will re-run your search:

?logoff hold
Just enter a command to reestablish your session

?ds
Set     Items   Description
S1        464   BURNOUT
S2       6011   STRESS
S3       6243   S1 OR S2
S4        305   S3 AND JOB()PERFORMANCE

(File 75: TTG Management Contents)

Usage Notes

DialogLink 5: A cost estimate displays when you enter LOGOFF HOLD.

DialogClassic: A cost estimate displays when you enter LOGOFF HOLD.

DialogWeb—Command: Reconnecting to your search after LOGOFF HOLD is not supported.

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