Scanning a SPARC 1+ keyboard in C

[Eric Eidson]

I am having some trouble with C I/O on a SPARCstation.  I am trying to 
read in a few characters from the keyboard and then send them back out
to standard I/O.  However, if the user doesn't respond within a certain
amount of time, I need the program to stop trying to read characters accept
a default and go on to the next step.  I have tried to use the curses 
functions getch() and nodelay() together, but since nodelay() requires
a call to initscr() which clears the screen, that approach is unsatisfactory.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/pointers/code.... :-)

Hunter 

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