Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:49:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: v2.03 release: what else has to be done?
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:

> I think what they're trying to do is discard the remainder of the
> input line, ala scanf("%*[^\n]\n").  The problem with fflush is that
> it discards more than that when stdin is redirected.

Then maybe fflush(stdin) needs just to set a flag that discards the
newline *iff* the newline is the first character in the buffer, and if
some specific functions, like scanf, are called after that, and if stdin
is the console device?