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Date: | Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:00:19 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Christopher Nelson <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Flushing input stream? |
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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Christopher Nelson wrote: > while(getc()!=EOF); This won't help, because `getc' will stall inside the DOS input function, after it consumed all the buffered characters. What the original poster wanted is a way to empty the buffered characters, and then return control to the main function, so it could proceed with reading new input.
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