Hi Bill,

You wrote to Thomas Seeling:

BP> TS>  TS>> fflush() is only defined for output streams.
BP> TS>  BP> I meant fflush(stdin)
BP> TS> You meant wrong, then.

BP>According to my instructor at the college and SAM's
BP>"Programming in ANSI C" page 457, I meant right.

Thomas is right and both your instructor and the book are wrong.

I don't have the ANSI spec but I've just checked my compiler manuals
(Microsoft, Borland, IBM CSET and Watcom) and Borland specify it as
working on Output streams only, Watcom and IBM as working on output
streams and undoing the effect of any "ungetc" operation on input
streams (but then virtually any operation on the stream other than a
read will undo the "ungetc" operation) and only Microsoft as flushing
input streams.

It's yet another case of people assuming the the way the least ANSI
compilant compiler (Microsoft's) operates is the correct way :-(

George

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