user input timeouts?

[bob at sinister.com (Bob Keyes)]

On 10 Feb 2004, Kevin D. Clark wrote:

>
> Bob Keyes writes:
>
> > On 10 Feb 2004, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> > > Obviously, there are more complicated ways to do this as well.
> >
> > Hrm...
>
> Something like this comes to mind:
>
>     #!/bin/sh
>     # ash?

.....

well it doesn't quite work. Seems that it doesn't get put into the
backround properly. But the basic functionality seems there; I just need
to tune it up. Thanks very much for this contribution!