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Re: SOS/Glance style screen prompting
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:34:51 -0800, Glenn Cole wrote:
|Jeff Woods wrote:
|> Use FCONTROL mode 4 to set a timeout on the FREAD waiting for the user
|> input.  When the read times out, then you will get a zero length return
|> which you can interpret as no data input.
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|I *think* you also get FSERR 22 (Software time-out).

Now that you mention it, I think so too.

As I said it's been a few years.  :)
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