Checking for a key to be hit

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From: Don Meredith
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 15:47

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I am currently porting a DOS program to be run on a IBM RS/6000 running
AIX.  What I am trying to figure out is how to check to see when a key is
hit?  What I am doing is timing out if the user does not respond within
a 20 second time limit.  Any ideas on how to do this?

Don Meredith
meredith@porthos.cs.ua.edu

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