Re: DELAY after ESCAPE

In article <C35B7F.697@ipars.cts.com>, scotto@ipars.cts.com (Scott O'Connell) writes: |> I'm just getting back into programming with Informix 4GL 4.10 and was |> noticing the delay time between pressing ESCape and Informix realizing |> that it should act upon the ESCape. |> I recall that there is some way to change this delay but can't find it |> documented anywhere. I have some old mail from the mailing list that says you can adjust it using the DBESCWT environment variable, e.g.: setenv DBESCWT 2 Caveats: 1) I haven't tried this myself. 2) I can't find documentation for it in the 4.00 or 4.10 manuals. 3) I don't know what the units are. Tenths of a second? Hundredths? If it's a new project, with users that aren't already conditioned to using ESCape, you should consider setting the "ACCEPT" key to something else. That seems like the neatest solution. (Alas, my users are conditioned ...:-() -- Harry Bochner bochner@das.harvard.edu