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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: getchar()
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Date: 8 Mar 91 03:53:24 GMT
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From the keyboard of daniel@island.COM (Daniel Smith):
:	I'd rewrite it in perl, but one of the things grabchars lets you do
:is assign defaults and time out after a given number of seconds, and I
:don't see how to set a timer in perl (Larry?).

You can use the alarm() function and catch SIGALRM.  

(Funny thing to find lurking in comp.lang.perl^H^H^H^Hc.)

--tom
--
	I get so tired of utilities with arbitrary, undocumented,
	compiled-in limits.  Don't you?

Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist