Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!sullivan
From: sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix problem with escape sequences
Summary: Expecting is nice, but you have to use it in the meantime
Message-ID: <869@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 88 20:08:20 GMT
References: <483@pan.UUCP> <860@vsi.UUCP> <262@fsc2086.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <262@fsc2086.UUCP>, jim@fsc2086.UUCP (Jim O'Connor) writes:
> In article <860@vsi.UUCP>, sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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,
> 
> I will probably be echoing Jamie's opinion that this is not a very robust
> solution to the dilema at hand.

Read my response again.  I said "workaround".  Sure, it would be great
if sperform worked as advertised.  Wouldn't it be great if everything
did.  However, it doesn't and in the meantime we have to use it as is.
This workaround will just have to do until Informix gets it right.
I hate not being able to use arrow keys and so do customers, so I'm
not defending Informix.  What I'm doing is giving you an alternative
until that solution is found.



-- 
Michael Sullivan				{uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan
V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA			sullivan@vsi.com
Just say to yourself over and over, "President Quayle". I can't do more than 2.