end thread select & ncurses

[Travis W. Loyd]

I was ready to hunt down for ncurses gurus when I encountered the problem with
select & ncurses this time only because I struggled so hard in the past only to
fail.

This time however I may have jumped the gun. With my current experience I was
able to change my thinking and use the ncurses funtions to recieve data without
blocking a select command which looks for network data. (Select may even be
taken out completely of course.)

It might not be a bad idea to metion that using stdin w/ select will not work
with ncurses but that a sutable solution is to use getch with nobreak on & a
fast timeout w/ select. Maybe a good place would be in the getch man page.

I can say I've tried this 3 times only to succeed this time. (Before I thought
select was the only way to monitor multiple inputs.) I can't be alone in doing
this. Those three times were seperated by approximately 1.75 years.

Thanks for everyone's quick help on the subject.
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Travis