Keypress with time-out.

[Duncan Sinclair]

Simple, easy question:

Can anyone supply me with portable code which will "poll"
my tty for (say) five seconds, and return any keypress which
it gets?

This is mainly for SunOS, but we also have some SYSV-type systems...

Thanks,


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