[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[ATimbrell at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/05/2009 13:16:45 GMT Daylight Time,  
brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com writes:

>Having had another rash of these events which couldn't be stopped in  this
>way, it occurs to me that it might be possible to write a routine to  put
>in !Boot/Utils to flush the keyboard buffer in much the same way as  HOff
>tidies up a persistent hourglass to avoid rebooting.
>Two  questions, would this work and is there a simple fx command to
>achieve  this?
 
It's certainly possible to flush the keyboard buffer. However I don't  think
that this would help - as without a key up event the buffer will 
just get filled up again. Out of interest I wonder what would happen
if (when this event occured) the keyboard was unplugged from the
machine? Obviously this can only be tried with a USB keyboard
and would be done at the "owners risk".
 
I would test this myself, but then I haven't had the problem for 
several years.

Aaron