>Thanks for the reply.
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>That wd make sense, and that works fine for SELECTs done from the command window, but within a program I can;t seem to get it to work. And the documentation implies that the ON ESCAPE/SET ESCAPE business, when done from within an executing program, takes effect after the currently running command completes (i.e., after the SELECT is done).
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>Or maybe/probably I'm missing something?
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>jd

Do you have some sort of ON ESCAPE code that's doing something else?