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In article <1990Nov26.185230.13800@hellgate.utah.edu> b-davis%cai.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brad Davis) writes:
>In article <1990Nov26.164656.858@hoss.unl.edu> ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) writes:
>>>Problem is, fflush doesn't flush the DOS buffers to disk, so

>>Is this a problem in Turbo C 2.0 also, or is it just an artifact of 
>>Turbo C++ 1.0[1]?

>Artifact of MS-DOS from 1.0 to 3.2.  As was mentioned, 3.3 has a call
>to do this, but then again, we can all write software that only needs
>to run on 3.3.

An even easier way to do this is to dup() and then close() the filehandle
associated with the stream.  This has worked since version 2.0 of MS-DOS.
You do need an open filehandle to do this, however...

i.e.

fflush(stream);
close(dup(fileno(stream)));

Bill
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