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From: robert@eva.slu.se (Robert Olsson datoravd, EMC tfn 018-672581)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: reading with timeout?
Message-ID: <5125@eva.slu.se>
Date: 3 Jun 89 15:51:56 GMT
Organization: SLU, Swedish university of agricultural sciences
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	Is there a way of reading with timeout in C, without using the 
	vendor-specific routines? I would like something like this:

	timeout = settimeout( 5 );
	fscanf (.......
	.
	if ( timeout ) {
	.

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