From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Flusing keyboard buffer
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:12:07 -0400
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Simon wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Simon wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone tell me a function that will remove all unfetched
> > > key strokes from the keyboard buffer !
> >
> > Here's one possible way:
> >
> >        while (kbhit ())
> >          getkey ();
>
> Sorry It does do what I want, I just though there may have been a
> specific function to do it
> Thanks for your help!
> Simon

     You can use:
rewind(stdin);
    That should kill the pending keystrokes in one function call.

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