Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!marque!carroll1!jeff From: jeff@carroll1.UUCP (Jeff Bartig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Clearing the keyboard buffer Message-ID: <700@carroll1.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 03:32:24 GMT References: <1169@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Reply-To: jeff@carroll1.UUCP (Jeff Bartig) Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI Lines: 18 In article <1169@krafla.rhi.hi.is> karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen) writes: >While writing in TURBO 4.0 I've constantly encountered the problem >of not being able to flush(clear) the keyboard buffer. try using: WHILE keypressed DO ch:=readkey; Where ch is a character variable and there is a "USES crt" at the beginning of your program. Jeff -- Jeff Bartig, Carroll College | "The sooner you fall jeff@carroll1.cc.edu | behind, the more time you uunet!marque!carroll1!jeff | have to catch up."