Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!sullivan
From: sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix problem with escape sequences
Summary: Use control chars instead
Message-ID: <860@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 15:49:17 GMT
References: <483@pan.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 17

In article <483@pan.UUCP>, jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
> 
> The Informix products seem to be incapable of handling escape sequences,
> such as are generated by the arrow keys on ansi terminals, reliably.

And how.  If you hit arrow keys too fast, sperform will goof up and
interpret and escape sequence as separate characters, thus writing a
possibly incomplete record.  There is an easy workaround, though.
Are you familiar with how h,j,k,l are used in vi?  h=left, j=down,
k=up, l=right.  In perform the control counterparts (^h,^j,^k,^l) do
the same thing.  Use these control characters, NEVER use arrow keys
in sperform.

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Michael Sullivan				{uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan
V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA			sullivan@vsi.com
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