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Subject: How do you flush the PC's keyboard?
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 20:28:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 20:28:17 1987
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According to _Advanced MS-DOS_ by Ray Duncan, DOS function C (hex)
resets the input buffer and then gets a character for input using one
of five DOS functions.  They are 1, 6, 7, 8, and A (hex).  I want to
flush the keyboard without getting input.  The reason for this is that
the next thing my program does is call up a canned function that uses
keyboard input.

I am using Lattice C.  Is there a standard way of doing this with C or
Assembler?  I would not expect

	fflush(stdin);

to work because fflush is said to be for output buffers.

Thank you for your attention.  You people are great.

-- 
Tom Reingold
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