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- From: pmoore@cix.compulink.co.uk (Paul Moore)
- Subject: Re: Prompting for input
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:18:10 +0000
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- In his posting, James Gillespie says:
- > pause. It appears to me that there must be something left
- > on STDIN as a result of entering the string "n\n", but I
- > can't find anything in the Camel book about such an
- > occurrence, or how to "suck"
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- Er - what about the "\n"? getc only gets a single character.
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- Gustav.
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