[Greg McKaskle]

My suggestion is similar. You decrease the timeout, and then you use the error code to control the downstream operation. Often you'll put the data handling code into a case structure, wire the error to the ? of the case structure, and then you can decide what to do in the error case. Sometimes you will do nothing, other times you will update a display to indicate "the other HW isn't responding; you are trying again; press that button to abort; etc.".

Greg McKaskle