Thanks for the ideas, THRAK and repson.   8^)
But they don't quite address my quest for knowledge of Win32 perl for timing-out on user input.

Anyone?   Bueller?   {grin}

Update:
Thanks to good monk tye for a polite RTFM   8^)   perldoc Term::ReadKey indicates that it just *might* support timeout internally.   I'm still experimenting with the syntax - will post results.

Update:
No go.   "Non-blocking ReadLine is not supported on this architecture" with ActivePerl 5.6 on Win2k, but runs fine on Debian 2.2r3 

$!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Term::ReadKey;
use Term::ReadLine;

ReadMode('noecho');
print 'enter password:';
my $pass = ReadLine(5);
ReadMode('restore');
unless (defined($pass)) {
    print "\n\nSorry, you waited too long.\n\n";
    exit;
    }

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In reply to (code) Re: cross-platform timeout on user input (Grrr!! "not supported on this platform") by ybiC
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