device-clear-input

Generic Function

Package: excl

Arguments: stream

Clears any pending input on the device connected to stream. May do nothing if the underlying device has no buffering of its own.

Defined methods

On class: simple-stream: returns nil.
On class: terminal-simple-stream: non-blocking read-octets is done repeatedly until 0 is returned.

See streams.htm for information on the simple-streams implementation in Allegro CL. The older but still supported Gray streams implementation is described in gray-streams.htm.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

Created 2000.10.5.