Anyone know of a way to get non-blocking keyboard input?

[Jeremy Reed]

I am looking to create a telnet client that will, by using the select() 
statment, poll an open socket for data to be received while at the same time 
keep accepting keyboard input from the user.

I have tried to run a thread in the background that collects input, but I 
never can figure out how to achieve the 'fluidity' that I desire--i.e. no 
stopping for a return-key press.

Any ideas or help would be appreciated.  Please, in addition to posting your 
answer in this newsgroup, email me a copy of your reply to 
jp_reed at yahoo.com.

Best regards,

Jeremy Reed