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In article <1992Aug13.100340.26026@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Bro
n) writes:
>In article <3748@keele.keele.ac.uk> coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase) 
rites:
>>
>>Many thanks to all the people who replied to my recent question I
>>posted in comp.os.msdos.programmer asking how to flush the keyboard
>>buffer in Borland C under DOS.
>>
>>I received 3 different ways of flushing the keyboard buffer which
>>worked.  They are:
>>
>>while (kbhit()) getch();
>>while (bioskey(1)) bioskey(0);
>
>These two are very likely the same thing.  If they are implemented in
>the obvious way, however, they will miss keystrokes like F12.
>
>>while (bioskey(1)) if (!getch()) getch();
>
>This is a roundabout version of the others.  The difference is that if
>an extended key (function or cursor key) is waiting in the buffer, it
>will be flushed in one pass through the loop rather than two.  But
>there's no advantage to that feature, and it makes the source program
>longer.
>
>I can understand why keyboard input is so confusing.  At a quick count I
>see eight DOS and BIOS functions to take keystrokes from the buffer or
>check the buffer for waiting keystrokes, or both.  No wonder people get
>confused!
>
>-- 
>Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                      brown@Ncoast.ORG
>
>"Ingrate, n.  One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise
>an object of charity."                          --Ambrose Bierce


Try fflush(stdin);

Glen Lowe
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