Re: How to flush keyboard buffer?

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From: Stan Brown
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 23:38

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In article <3721@keele.keele.ac.uk> coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase) writes:
>I'm programming in MSDOS with Borland C.  How do you flush the
>internal keyboard buffer?

A follow-up to this recommended "fflush(stdin)".  IMHO, this is not the
best solution. The BC++ 2.0 library manual says what happens with an
output stream but is silent on the effect of fflishing an input stream.

I'd suggest "while (kbhit()) getch();" provided your program will be
running under DOS not Windows.

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                      brown@Ncoast.ORG

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Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 23:38:15 GMT
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