Making a Plea on a "I need to know things" basis...

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// A single call to 'read' just isn't reliable, don't do it.
// But if you really want to, this commented section is how you do it

// small read, return in one read() call
// this uses built-in timeout instead of select()

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// This bit of source was in the UART.c file in the LibRobotControl repo. as comments.
// What does timeout mean and what is select()?