Sleep timer but still responsive?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:34:22 -0300, JohnnyFive <morganhein at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> I need help with something that is probably fairly simple, but i'm
> having a heck of a time getting it work.
>
> Basically, I need my program to sleep for a certain amount of time,
> but I don't want the console to become unresponsive while sleeping.

Please provide more details. What do you want your program to do while  
sleeping? What kind of actions do you want a response to?
Do you have a GUI? A curses-based interfase?

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Gabriel Genellina