stuffing the read buffer

>Under DOS, a character can be placed in the front of the keyboard >buffer using the BIOS interrupt 16h, service 05h. This character >is the next one read by the Informix application and can be used >in ON KEY code to push carriage returns into the keyboard buffer, >which Informix then reads and interprets as user supplied keystrokes. >This action results in Informix advancing to the next field and >skipping the current field, but the current field's AFTER FIELD >code is executed. The same AFTER FIELD code is not executed when >NEXT FIELD's are used. >Does anyone know whether or not it is possible to reproduce this >type of behavior under SCO Unix? or under Sys V 3.2.x. I wrote a 4GL simulating sperform 2-screens interface. Upon pressing escape on one screen, I wanted to "stuff the buffer with an escape" so that when the next screen is displayed, it will get terminated and after input will do the checking. I tried, and tried .... and finally resorted to asking the user to press the esc key again. It would be very useful if the above was possible... Mukesh (mukesh@elsouth.wsnc.org)