My next goal is to take getkey (the one that waits for a Q on the serial port) and shorten its wait time. It only needs to be a split-second as I always fill the buffer with Q's before that program even starts.

Attached to this message, you find a binary of getkey.c that was patched to wait only one second (instead of 5). I don't know how to decrease the time any more (because it uses alarm which takes the number of seconds to wait before sending SIG_ALRM to the task calling it as an argument).

cu,
sven

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