On 1/24/02 at 8:42 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> ticker &
> PID=$!
> ....more stuff here...
> kill $PID

I wrote a program that puts a timeout on a timed prompt, and it uses
that method - but "...more stuff here..." means:

sleep $DELAY

or something like that.  I think I called it timedread or timeread;
it's been in the Oxygen distribution for a while now.
--
David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Unixware, Linux
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