HP 3000 Manuals

Micro Focus COBOL System Reference, Volume 2

COBKEYTIMEOUT 

Specifies the length of time, in tenths of a second, that your machine is
to wait between receiving an Escape character and any other keystroke,
before assuming that the Escape character is to be treated as a single
character and not as a function key.

Syntax: 

     COBKEYTIMEOUT=n 
     export COBKEYTIMEOUT

Parameters: 

n                   is the number of tenths of a second, in the range 0 -
                    126, that your machine is to wait between receiving
                    an Escape character and any other keystroke.

Remarks: 

The COBKEYTIMEOUT environment variable is particularly useful if you are
using a remote terminal, where there may be some delay between keystrokes
reaching your machine.

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