Re: DBESCWT environment variable

}From ilist@rmy.emory.edu Thu Jun 24 12:29:26 1993 }From: rmy!emory!obelix.informix.com!johnl (Jonathan Leffler) }To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu }Subject: Re: DBESCWT environment variable }Sender: informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu }Reply-To: rmy!emory!obelix.informix.com!johnl (Jonathan Leffler) }X-Informix-List-To: johnb@amgen.com }X-Informix-List-Id: <list.2422> } }>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> } But is it possible to set DBESCWT to less than one second, which appears to be the default value? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Brown (Software Support Manager) Amgen Ltd Email: johnb@amgen.com Cambridge UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any opinions stated here are not neccesarily those of my employer