Re: DBESCWT environment variable

=Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 12:40:00 BST =From: uunet!gbops.amgen.com!johnb (John Brown) =Subject: Re: DBESCWT environment variable =X-Informix-List-Id: <list.2425> =}From: johnl@obelix.informix.com (Jonathan Leffler) =}Subject: Re: DBESCWT environment variable =}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.) =But is it possible to set DBESCWT to less than one second, which =appears to be the default value? Not as far as I am aware. Obviously, you can try setting it to zero, but I don't think this will have the desired effect. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>