escaping idle users back to menu

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/12/2011 5:08 PM, Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> They'd have to implement select() in the *clerk engine--something I've
> advocated since 1993, but which has never been felt necessary by TPTB.
> Luck with that.

Not available on Windows.  (Well, the select() function call is available, 
but it works only with sockets.)  Yes, there are other Windows API calls 
which filePro can use to not sit forever in a "read a character from the 
keyboard" call.  And, in fact, filePro already uses them, and has done so 
for years.

And consider, for example, PFMBTO on *nix.

-- 
Kenneth Brody