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Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 14:44:14 +0200 
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From: paul.moore@uk.origin-it.com (Paul Moore)
Subject: Re: OK Oracle, What'd You do with the Cancel Window in SQLPlus?
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Gene Hubert wrote:
> I've recently become aware that there was a neat little "cancle query"
> window that would pop up whenever a query was running in SQLPlus under
> Windows 98 and NT under Oracle 7.x.  It seems to have disappeared in
> Oracle 8.x.  Anybody know what's going on here?

It's something to do with whether the SQL*Net connection supports
interruptable connections (asynchronous calls? something like that...)
I can't recall the details, but it's definitely to do with the SQL*Net
version and setup, not SQL*Plus itself.

The feature has been in SQL*Plus since sometime in Oracle 7.3.

Paul Moore