Re: i4gl, wordwrap arrow keys & core dump

> On SCO UNIX an application core dumps if the user presses the arrow keys (a > lot) to navigate around a wordwrapped field. i4gl is 4.12 SE is 5.01. If > you are careful (i.e. use arrow keys sparingly and slowly), this does not > occur > > Any ideas chaps & chappesses ? > If your users are accessing the node via TCP-IP, you might try setting (and exporting) DBESCWT equal to 1 or 2 in the user's login environment. The arrow keys are "escape sequence" keys. This means that when the user presses the arrow key two bytes of data are issued. An escape character, followed by a data character. The TCP-IP protocol does NOT guarantee that both of these bytes will be transported in the same network data packet. DBESCWT is the hole number of seconds that a program will wait before taking action on a received escape character. This allows the application program some time to determine if the received character was really an escape (followed by bad data in the beginning of the next packet), or a broken up "escape sequence" key. -- Regards, Walter S. Tyszka (wstyszka@ingr.com) * Standard disclaimers apply *