Re: Escape delay

Hi Mark, In <1995Jan30.221820.10688@mswinsor>, wmark@mswinsor (Mark S. Winsor) writes: >What is the method for lowering the ESC delay in Informix? It doesn't seem >to use the Unix env variable. We have users complaining of the slowness >of the software, but it seems to be just a perception based on the ESC >slowness. I'd prefer not to recode the application if it could be avoided. You can modify the timeframe for the ESCAPE key by... setting an Informix 'hidden' environment variable (this is NOT documented in the docs). You should set DBESCWAIT (uppercase characters)! try this: set DBESCWAIT=5;export DBESCWAIT Run now Informix-SQL or QuickStep (or a 4GL program). Press now on ESCAPE and you'll notice that it will wait for 5 secs for a second key. If you don't press a secondary key then it performs the real ESCAPE function. This feature is available since Informix 4.x products! By the way, there are other 'hidden' environment variables in Informix 4.x, but some of them are reveiled in Informix 5.x and higher. You can use DBSCREENOUT (Embedded control characters) and DBSCREENDUMP (ASCII format) variables for making screen dumps with CTRL-P. Regards, R.