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From: platt@emory.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you flush the PC's keyboard?
Message-ID: <2072@emory.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 18:21:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: emory.2072
Posted: Fri Jun  5 18:21:46 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jun-87 00:53:17 EDT
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Reply-To: platt@emory.UUCP (Dan Platt)
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <747@thumper.UUCP> tr@thumper.UUCP writes:
> ...I want to flush the keyboard without getting input.
>flush the keyboard without getting 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.

Actually, I've found fflush(stdin) works quite well here.  It's true that
fflush is usually used for output, and isn't needed for UNIX C, but I've
found that functions such as getchar() have a problem with the carriage
return without flushing after getting only one character.  Without the 
fflush(stdin) the next getchar() returns a '\n'.  But then, I'm using
MS C ver 4.0, but the routines are probably similarly quirky with Lattice C.
Anyway, I've seen it work, and I've used it for the above problem.  Hope
it's a help, and I hope it works with lattice C.

Dan