getchar()

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of daniel at 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
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	I get so tired of utilities with arbitrary, undocumented,
	compiled-in limits.  Don't you?

Tom Christiansen		tchrist at convex.com	convex!tchrist