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Hi
How can I do a program that ask:
"continue? (y/n)"
And if the user doesn't choose y or n in 3 seconds, the program continues?
Thank you
Rolf
 
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How you do this depends you your environment (OS and compiler). If you're using MS-DOS, see if your compiler supports kbhit(), if you're using *nix, you can do it with select() or poll(). A recent thread called "Key press w/o return" (go back a page) discusses ways to "poll" stdin() for input without blocking program execution, which is what you need to do here.

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