Re: Serial I/O and time question

To time out, I would use sleep and SIG{ALRM} like so:

$SIG{ALRM} = \&timeout_code;
alarm = $N;
while (<COM>) {
   $out .= <COM>;
}
$SIG{ALRM} = "";
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-Mark

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Re: Re: Serial I/O and time question by shepner (Initiate) on Feb 20, 2004 at 00:41 UTC
thanks! Ill give it a try. It never ceases to amaze me how simple perl can do some things.... :)	[reply]