reading with timeout?

[Robert Olsson datoravd, EMC tfn 018-672581]

	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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