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From: elric AT wheel DOT dcn DOT davis DOT ca DOT us (Jeffrey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: interrupting with ctrl-C
Date: 3 Sep 1996 22:02:51 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: 
: On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Erik Max Francis wrote:
: 
: > Or just use fflush.
: 
: `fflush' is not enough when redirection is used, or when you invoke a 
: child program that reads from a file written by the parent.  You should 
: either close the file or call `fsync' to ensure DOS flushes its buffers.  
: `fflush' only flushes the DJGPP buffers, but not the DOS ones.

If you are using SMARTDRV, its buffers need to be flushed too.  Off the 
top of my head, I would spawn a call to run "smartdrv /c"

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