Re: Changing the accept key in 4GL

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!wupost!usc!rpi!ispd-newsserver!laidbak!tellab5!odgate!mike From: mike@odgate.odesta.com (Mike J. Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Keywords: accept 4GL Message-ID: <1992Feb10.185501.3863@odgate.odesta.com> Date: 10 Feb 92 18:55:01 GMT References: <1992Feb7.202156.26444@cbfsb.att.com> Organization: Odesta Corporation ciesla@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (lawrence.w.ciesla) writes: >The 4GL OPTIONS statement provides the ability to change the ACCEPT key from >ESC to something else. I have played around with this a little, and was >curious if anyone out there has found another key that their users prefer >to ESC. Also, has anyone been able to successfully change the ACCEPT key >to function key F1. I have tried, but have met with no success. >Thanks I did this in one job I did. One thing to be careful about is getting your termcap or terminfo (I always forget which one informix uses) info right. Multicharacter keys can be a problem for INFORMIX because it has to separate out the ESCAPE as a character from ESCAPE as an introduction to an escape sequence (which is what most function keys send). If you set it to a single control character, you should not have a problem. I suspect your problem with F1 is that most VTx00-compatible terminals use F1 for XON/XOFF. You could probably turn xoff/xon OFF , but that is inadvisable in an application like INFORMIX which does a lot of screen drawing; the terminal needs to be able to say whoa! to the host. Try some other function key and it should work. -- -- Mike Kelly Odesta Corporation, Northbrook, Illinois, USA ...!clout!odgate!mike - Until odesta.com is registered. odgate!mike@clout.uucp - From the Internet.