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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: fflush and Visual C++
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 06:29:13 -0600
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- In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960317221145.19217F-100000@black.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
- The Amorphous Mass <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
- > fflush() isn't defined to "flush the stdin buffer." It flushes
- >_output_ streams only from any buffers they might be in to their final
- >destinations (on screen, disk, printer, etc).
-
- Not technically; it merely forces output written to stdio to be passed on
- to the host environment, which may have its own level of buffering you
- can't control. fflush is not powerful enough to force routers everywhere
- to drop what they're doing and forward your packets.
-
- Shame, too.
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