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In article <4l1idn$pvs@solutions.solon.com>,
News User Id  <news@eskimo.com> wrote:
 >Before anyone goes off and looks and is disappointed (actually,
 >it's probably too late for that), the only system-specific
 >question that the comp.lang.c FAQ list answers in that much
 >detail is, "How do I read one character without waiting for
 >the RETURN key?".  To the implicit followon question, "If
 >fflush(stdin) won't work, how *can* I flush the user's typeahead
 >before issuing a prompt confirming whether I should reformat the
 >hard drive?", the FAQ list suggests no answer, because I don't
 >know a good one (other than, your program probably shouldn't be
 >offering to do that at all).

Ah, right. My apologies. I was thinking along the lines that these two problems
are so closely related that the answer to one is really tied to the other.
Though it doesn't have a ``canned'' answer for various platforms, the FAQ does
give some leads in the right direction.
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