From: Simon <simon AT magicsoftware DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Flusing keyboard buffer
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:34:45 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Simon wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me a function that will remove all unfetched
> > key strokes from the keyboard buffer !
> 
> Here's one possible way:
> 
>        while (kbhit ())
>          getkey ();

I meant to say that if the buffer contains keystrokes that were from
some time ago and I want to totally disregard them and wait for new
presses. I want do some code such as:

//flush old unwanted keys
    flush_kb_buffer();
//wait for new presses
    while (kbhit ())
          getkey ();

Thanks
Simon