Keypress with time-out.

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1 total messages Started by Duncan Sinclair Sat, 01 Dec 1990 19:10

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Author: Duncan Sinclair
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 1990 19:10

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Simple, easy question:

Can anyone supply me with portable code which will "poll"
my tty for (say) five seconds, and return any keypress which
it gets?

This is mainly for SunOS, but we also have some SYSV-type systems...

Thanks,


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