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From: pbjakewa@barrow.uwaterloo.ca (Bruce Jakeway)
Subject: time-limited read
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 16:06:16 GMT
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I would like to read a character from the keyboard but if after a specified
period of time nothing is inputed, for the character to be defaulted to a
pre-specified character and the read aborted.  Any help would be appreciated.

Bruce
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