Re: Compile error on OPTIONS ESCAPE statement

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!walter!bellcore!porthos!agate!brick From: brick@agate.bellcore.com (Nigel Brickenden) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <brick.686251223@agate> Date: 30 Sep 91 17:20:23 GMT References: <1991Sep30.125611.9161@kodak.kodak.com> Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software) Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ amiano@static.Kodak.Com (Mitch Amiano) writes: > Options Accept key ESCAPE # To restore the ESCAPE key >This will not compile. It gives the error: > OPTIONS ACCEPT KEY ESCAPE >|___________________________^ >| >| A grammatical error has been found on line 427, character 29. >| The construct is not understandable in its context. >| See error number -4373. I am postibng this answer/suggestion since I cannot e-mail to the above address. We see this on our RDS version 4.1 running on a Sun environment. The fix for us was to replace ESCAPE by esc (I haven't tried it in uppercase!). Hope this works. Nigel Brickenden Bellcore Red Bank, NJ NVC-2Z211 908-758-5551 brick@bcr.bellcore.com ...!bcr!brick -- brick@bcr.bellcore.com ...bcr!brick This is a very boring signature.