Thanks for the ideas, THRAK and repson. 8^)
But they don't quite address my quest for knowledge of Win32 perl for timing-out on user input.
Anyone? Bueller? {grin}
Update:
Thanks to good monk tye for a polite RTFM 8^) perldoc Term::ReadKey indicates that it just *might* support timeout internally. I'm still experimenting with the syntax - will post results.
Update:
No go. "Non-blocking ReadLine is not supported on this architecture" with ActivePerl 5.6 on Win2k, but runs fine on Debian 2.2r3
$!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Term::ReadKey;
use Term::ReadLine;
ReadMode('noecho');
print 'enter password:';
my $pass = ReadLine(5);
ReadMode('restore');
unless (defined($pass)) {
print "\n\nSorry, you waited too long.\n\n";
exit;
}
muttering to himself...
Don
striving toward Perl Adept
(it's pronounced "why-bick")
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