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Article #1615Re: Implementing a Timeout During Shell Script Data Entry
From: Michael Morrell
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 1990 22:14
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 1990 22:14
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/comp.unix.shell/emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire) / 9:20 am Oct 24, 1990 > You might try using the probably undocumented timeout feature of line(1). > I'm not sure which versions of Un*x have this "feature", but you could check. What version if UNIX are you running? No machine at my site will do it. ---------- I'm using HP-UX 7.0 (a conglomeration of SysV and BSD4.something), but I fairly sure it's not unique to HP-UX. Also, "line" may be a shell builtin on some systems, which would explain why you don't find a line(1). Michael
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!morrell From: morrell@hpcuhb.cup.hp.com (Michael Morrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Implementing a Timeout During Shell Script Data Entry Message-ID: <38020002@hpcuhb.cup.hp.com> Date: 24 Oct 90 22:14:56 GMT References: <4128@kitty.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 12