Re: DBESCWT environment variable

Posted in 1993

Jonathan Leffler — Thu, 24 Jun 93 09:35:13 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>From: uunet!saans.north.de!rolf (Rolf Nerstheimer) >Subject: DBESCWT environment variable >Date: 23 Jun 93 16:33:26 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.3628> >Can anybody tell me about syntax/semantics of DBESCWT ? >I haven't found it in the documentation. >We are using Online V4.0. DBESCWT is an environment variable which can be set to an integer number of seconds. When the tools (not the engines) are reading keyboard input, they will wait for up to $DBESCWT seconds for another character to appear, to see whether the next character is part of a function key escape sequence or whether the escape is the accept key. It is occasionally of use over slow networks. (Someone else may wish to elaborate on when it is useful, but that is the only context in which I have used it.) Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>