Hi list, I'm writing a script that shows a person a math expression (like "2 + 3") waits for an answer, then returns if its right or wrong. What I want though, is for it to wait something like 3 seconds and, if there is no input, assume the user doesn't know and return "WRONG".
I thought of using 'later, in something like: (setq A '(NIL)) (later A (timeout 3000) (in NIL (line T))) (wait 3000) (if (car A) "RIGHT" "WRONG" ) That is, make a child process in parallel, have It die after 3 seconds of waiting for input, wait for three seconds, and do something depending on whether the child returned a value (if it didn't, it timed out before the user answered). but I don't know how to connect the new input channel to the current terminal. So the questions are: 1) how to get the child to take over the input channel of the parent, 2) Is this the best way to do it? is there a better way? Thanks
