Re: Checking for a key to be hit

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From: Mike Stefanik
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 16:35

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In an article, meredith@porthos.cs.ua.edu (Don Meredith) writes:
: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?

Read your manual pages on termio(4), ioctl(2), signal(2) and alarm(2).
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Mike Stefanik  mike@pacsoft.com  ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike  (714) 681-2623
Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA

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