>    PS  If you know of a way of setting a timeout for a KbdCharIn() so that
 > it will return when a character is pressed or when a time period has
 > elapsed then please let me know.

Use a separate thread for handling the keyboard. Semaphores provide the
facility to wait timeout.

The only gotcha is that you have to handle the keyboard device as a point
of contention between threads - if you've made a blocking call (say
KbdCharIn with IO_WAIT), then almost all other Kbd*() calls will block
until you press a key.

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