QUESTION

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Robert Pulliam (Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:30:52 -0400):

>  I  have employees who are key pounders.  AT the end of the day   
> there is a process - ie a batch file with 35 command lines
> that must be executed every day.  If they hit the enter key twice or  
>  more with their pounding this process runs exactly that many times.  
>   Using filepro - sco unix.  Is there a unix command that would   
> intercept the multiple enters or could i exit the entire batch file   
> with a filepro command.

Some versions of *nix will flush pending input if stty is used to
change the I/O mode.

You can tell filePro to eat all pending input before exiting with
something like:

   eatthem:
       If:  asc(inkey) ne "0"
     Then:  goto eatthem

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