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>
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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.