in reply to Re^4: Perl replacement for choice.com
in thread Perl replacement for choice.com
It appears that on Windows 7 32 and 64 bit, you can run into scenarios where choice will never timeout even though it is supposed to.
Hm. Can't reproduce that.
It's also pretty implausible that a sleep within a console application would in any way be affected by whether the console it is running in has focus or not.
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