From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-10-29T01:25:43+09:00 Subject: Re: how to implement timeout on vista On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Li Chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I am sorry if this post is duplicated. > > > Here is what I try to do: get input from terminal/console. If waiting > for 3 seconds and no input is given, then stop this process and print > out a message of 'Timeout!!!' > > I tried 'timeout' from the library but it doesn't work.I wonder how I > implement timeout process on vista. > > Thank you very much in advance, > > Li > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > gem install terminator http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/terminator/terminator-0.4.2/README cheers. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama