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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Idle timeout in kermit?
Date: 1 Dec 1998 15:10:42 GMT
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In article <slrn766vll.h2o.ak@colin.muc.de>,
Andi Kleen <ak@colin.muc.de> wrote:
: Is there a way to do "if line idle XXX seconds do command foo" in ckermit6?
: I tried to use set alarm, if alarm but it seems to be only a general purpose
: timer with no idea about idle times. Is there a way in standard kermit?
:
INPUT xxx
Waits up to xxx seconds for *any* character to arrive. It fails if no
characters arrive, and succeeds if any character does arrive within that
interval.
- Frank