Re: New to Informix - question about <esc>

"Solgon, Laurie" wrote: > > Hi, > I'm absolutely new to Informix coming from a DB/2 background. I'm > trying to learn by books and example. > > My question: I've seen references to <esc>, the escape key. I can't find > this in books and was wondering if this is something that one programs or if > this is an Informix 4GL convention that means something special? If so, > what does it mean? I'm trying to follow the flow of the programs and I see > <esc> on the screen forms and menu, but not in the programs. BTW, I'm not > talking about escaping a character like in C. Thanks in advance for your > help. The <ESC> key is the default ACCEPT KEY (You should find reference to that in the manuals). You can change the default key with the OPTIONS command. The ACCEPT KEY basically accepts input from various commands, instead of the INTERRUPT KEY, which aborts input. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock http://www.informix.com |//////// /| | mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| | |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| | |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+