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From: sinclair@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Keypress with time-out.
Summary: How do a (maybe) get a key-press?
Keywords: select tty
Message-ID: <7101@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Dec 90 19:10:52 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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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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