Re: [Dev-C++] differnece between system pause and cin.get()

[Lucas K. T. <lk...@bo...>]

Although this is probably pretty useless to you...
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>Thanks for the response.
>Is there a way of chekking if there`s annything left in the >cin =
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>Or to empty it for that matter before using it as a tool for >keeping =
dos boxes open :-)

Well to empty the keyboard buffer, you'd have to go through memory =
access and move the value that is within: 40h:[1Ch] to 40h:[1Ah], 'cause =
you see, the keyb buffer is circular and 32-bytes long, and 40h:[1Ah] =
points to it's head, while 40h:[1Ch] points to it's tail, so basically, =
by assigning the same value to them, the buffer would get cleared, =
sample code (although I'm not sure this would work in a Win console =
program, it'd work on a DOS program):

word tail;
tail =3D peek(0x40, 0x1C);
poke(0x40, 0x1A, tail);

Or perhaps you could try:
poke(0x40, 0x1A, peek(0x40, 0x1C));

directly... I'm have tested neithe,r but they should work just fine...

Unecessary information, thoguh... but it's always nice ot learn new =
things... hehee =3D)

lkt153