From: "Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17mis.wpafb.af.mil>
To: acs@world.std.com
Cc: sverre@research.nokia.com, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh: read with timeout?
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:05:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199511120005.TAA00574@a_69s.wpafb.af.mil> (raw)
>> On Thu, 09 Nov 1995 08:37:57 -0500,
>> acs@world.std.com said:
[Is there a way to give the read-command (in zsh) a timeout-value?]
V> I don't know of any way to get zsh to do this. I would get expect from
V> ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect. It's really designed to handle timeouts
V> and make decisions based on returned values, and..... all kinds of neat
V> stuff.
Check out "grabchars" in comp.sources.misc volume 12. It's intended for
use in shell scripts where you might want a timeout, default answer, or
restricted set of allowed answers for a given prompt.
--
Karl Vogel vogelke@c17mis.wpafb.af.mil
Control Data Systems, Inc. ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433
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1995-11-09 8:18 Sverre Slotte
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