[ale] keystrokes

[cfowler at www.topform.com (Christopher Fowler)]

Is there any shell command in bash that will allow me to grab keystrokes other
than read.  I would like to do a read command but give a time limit of 
60 seconds.  Ne1 know how.  Or does ne1 have a C program that will take
the time length on the command line and return the input on STDOUT?


Thanks,
Christopher Fowler
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