From: "Alex Vinokur" <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Flushing non-read input data with using tcflush (was : fflush not flusing stdin!) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:34:32 +0200 Lines: 47 Message-ID: <b5skqr$2d7uag$1@ID-79865.news.dfncis.de> References: <db3ae3ab DOT 0303250604 DOT 191c8926 AT posting DOT google DOT com> <b5q1jk$2c7kcc$1 AT ID-79865 DOT news DOT dfncis DOT de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pop09-2ras2-p97.barak.net.il (212.150.105.97) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1048696477 81000784 212.150.105.97 (16 [79865]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Alex Vinokur" <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote in message news:b5q1jk$2c7kcc$1 AT ID-79865 DOT news DOT dfncis DOT de... > > "Shuo Xiang" <sxiang AT student DOT math DOT uwaterloo DOT ca> wrote in message news:db3ae3ab DOT 0303250604 DOT 191c8926 AT posting DOT google DOT com... > > Greetings: > > > > While working on a computer science assignment I have had the need to > > flush the contents of stdin. But the statement > > > > fflush(stdin); > > > > doesn't seem to be working. On the other hand: > > > > char s[80]; > > > > gets(s); > > > > does seem to be working provided that whatever is in stdin is not > > longer than 80 characters. > > > > Could anyone kindly point out why fflush failed in this situation. > > > > Regards, > > > > Shuo Xiang > > See tcflush (OS-dependent) : > http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?tcflush+3 > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/tcflush.html > http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mansec?3C+tcflush > > See also "tcflush on SunOS and HP-UX" : > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7vk28v%24u14%241%40nnrp1.deja.com > Also : usage sample on Windows 2000, DJGPP, gcc : http://groups.google.com/groups?th=966b48614282dfce ================================= Alex Vinokur mailto:alexvn AT connect DOT to http://www.simtel.net/pub/oth/19088.html =================================