Date   : Wed, 09 May 1984 03:06:17-EDT
From   : Mark Becker <CENT.MBECK%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Neophyte CP/M 2.2 Question (BIOS disk flush)

<*>-food for bug eater - who own's the bug?

     I would like to thank Glen (aecom!glen) for his information.
Very useful and also very timely (just got into the blocking/deblocking
part of this stuff).

     There is only one problem left: I have found the manufacturer's
implementation of the buffer-flush (flush-on-input-character) to take
an excessive amount of time; when I was writing this communications
program, so much time was lost that I was losing characters at 1200
baud.  I got around the problem by putting the console I/O routines into
the program and not using the BIOS routines.  This is, of course, not
'standard'.

     I would be interested in hearing from others on their methods of
when to flush buffers.  If enough interest pops up, I'll summarize back
to the net.

Mark