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From: cjdb@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you flush the PC's keyboard?
Message-ID: <1888@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 01:46:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1888
Posted: Wed Jun  3 01:46:29 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jun-87 03:23:00 EDT
References: <747@thumper.UUCP> <708@cod.UUCP> <4063@amd.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjdb@sphinx.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Organization: The University of Chicago
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In article <4063@amd.UUCP> markg@amd.UUCP (Mark Gorlinsky) writes:
>[...]
>This is a first in a long time.  I finally got some useful information
>from this newsgroup.  I didn't learn much about how to UNFORMATT a floppy or
>why I would like to make PC|MSDOS crash via =" ".  Thank GOD someone out there
>has brains!! 
>

We all have brains, and that's >" ", by the way. 

Here's how I flush the keyboard when I'm not busy freezing up the
machine ( :-) ):

	mov	ah,0		; BIOS function to read char from kbd
	int	16h		; call BIOS

AH contains the scan code, AL the character. Don't process = throw away.

I'm not saying this is better than the other methods posted (after
all, one is counselled to use DOS wherever one can), but simply
different.




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