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From: pbjakewa@barrow.uwaterloo.ca (Bruce Jakeway)
Message-Id: <D0pGqH.n1o@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
Subject: time-limited read
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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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