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Subject: Re: Flushing input stream?
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 08:21:33 +0000
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Since I haven't seen anyone post it yet. If portability is not a problem
what about trying this:

while(kbhit()) getch();

This will flush the keyboard buffer and stop as soon as there are no
more keys left.

IIRC, kbhit() is in conio.h

Chih Hui wrote:
> 
> Hi, how do I flush the standard input stream in DJGPP? In other
> compilers, I could use the non-standard way by using fflush(stdin).
> Thanks.
> 
> main(){
>   char ch1, ch2;
> 
>   printf("Enter a letter: ");
>   ch1 = getchar();
> 
>   /* flush input here */
> 
>   printf("Enter another letter: ");
>   ch2 = getchar();
> }