>SET ESCAPE OFF

???? Uh, ok, did I miss something??

Surely you don't mean that if they accidently chose a process that runs a LONG select statement that you lock them out of escaping out of it?? Surely not. Our users are too adept at the old 3 finger salute (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and will use it at the slightest sign of the program doing something they really didn't want to do.