From:	DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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Subject:	Re: Flushing input stream?
Date:	Thu, 08 Jul 1999 04:20:41 GMT
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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:59:09 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>It depends on what level do you want to empty the input.  Borland's
>fflush(stdin) only empties the characters buffered in the stdin FILE
>object.  This effect can be achieved by calling fseek, like this:
>
>  fseek (stdin, -66000, SEEK_CUR);
>
>(The magic number 66000 is meant to be larger than any possible size
>of the so-called transfer buffer used by a DJGPP program to pass data
>to and from real-mode services.)

Shouldn't it be positive? That would give the impression of seeking
"beyond" the end of buffered data, although I suppose a negative
number would achieve similar results. Is there any reason why you made
it negative?

Davin.

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