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Dear Winbugs users, For a long time I using Winbugs for large problems I was irritated by the fact that I could not see any way to interrupt a run without crashing the program. Hence, if for instance I wanted to run a program over two nights, I could not pause it while I used the computer for something else during the day, expect by roughly calculating the number of iterations completed in (say) ten hours. Sometimes such calculations can be wildly out. I then discovered the following trick, which others might also find useful. If you click on the updates box in the Update dialog and then delete the digits there with either the backspace or delete key, the updating will stop after completing the current iteration. This works however many iterations were originally programmed. It works even if you do not see any response at the time that you are typing, which will be the case if the time to complete each iteration is substantial. The consequence is that you can set up Winbugs to do far more iterations than you would ever want, and then pause it whenever you like. I hope this is helpful to others. I certainly find it a useful thing to be able to do, Regards, Tom Smith Swiss Tropical Institute Department of Public Health & Epidemiology Socinstrasse 57 Tel +41-61-284 8273 P.O . Box Fax +41-61-271 7951 CH-4002 Basel Telex 962508 Switzerland email: [log in to unmask] http://www.sti.unibas.ch/biomet.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- To mail the BUGS list, mail to [log in to unmask] You can search old messages at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bugs.html To leave the BUGS list, send LEAVE BUGS to [log in to unmask] If this fails, mail [log in to unmask], NOT the whole list This list is for discussion of modelling issues and the BUGS software. For help with crashes and error messages, first mail [log in to unmask]