timeout for @key function

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/8/2016 5:14 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> I don't see how it's possible to implement solely within filePro
> processing.  filePro doesn't use select() on file descriptors (excepting
> 5.6's sockets and higher).  All the console stuff has always been blocking
> or polling (depending on normal or error conditions) reads from STDIN.  Ken
> was always very much against my suggestions to use select() in clerk, so I
> don't believe there's actually a way to do this unless something changed.
[...]

I'm not sure how select() has anything to do with @KEY processing.

There is, however INKEY, and SLEEP.

You also forget that "all the world's a VAX" is just as untrue when you say 
"Unix/Linux".  (The select function on Windows works on sockets only.  It 
will fail miserably if you try it on stdin, or ay non-socket handle, which 
is a main reason why filePro's SELECT function also can only be used on 
sockets.)

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Kenneth Brody