Hello!

  I'm writing a text-adventure in Cobol on a 3k.  What I need to do is
something like BASIC's INKEY function; I want to check if any keyboard input
has happened and possibly do other processing.

  I *think* I need to open a file to $STDIN and set a quick timeout using
FCONTROL; am I on the right track?

  The game is multiplayer from the get-go, so I can't have one player
"control" the game, by not typing anything, which is what I get using
COBOL's ACCEPT statement.

  Thanks for any help; I am doing this as an HP and COBOL exercise