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From: drezac@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac)
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Subject: Re: How do I unbuffer console IO under QuickC and DOS?
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Date: 17 May 91 11:24:14 GMT
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From article <1991May15.181314.16216@cs.dal.ca>, by dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn):
> 
> I need to unbuffer my console IO under DOS and QuickC (or any variant of C).
> How do I do this?
> 
>  i.e. if there's a character waiting for me, getchar() will return it with
> no waiting for a return or anything else...
> 
> Thanks...
> --
>  Michael Dinn, Sysop of the Moose's Swamp - Nova Scotia's largest Amiga BBS

for unbuffered IO in QuickC use getch() - It has worked well for me. 

( my most recent use was to flush the key buffer after detecting a
key hit.   to flush the buffer , I used :   while(kbhit()) getch();




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