From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Flushing input stream? Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 04:20:41 GMT Organization: Monash Uni Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3784268a.526045@newsserver.cc.monash.edu.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: damcc5.halls.monash.edu.au X-Trace: towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au 931407623 14957 130.194.198.138 (8 Jul 1999 04:20:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT monash DOT edu DOT au NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jul 1999 04:20:23 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:59:09 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii 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. __________________________________________________________ *** davmac - sharkin'!! davmac AT iname DOT com *** my programming page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~davmac/