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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^4: scanf(..)
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Date: 14 Jun 89 18:05:48 GMT
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peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
\...
\[ By the way, it really bugs me that stdio is so inconsistant about the
\  position of the inevitable 'stream' argument? In an ideal world that code
\  would read "fgets(stdin, buffer, sizeof buffer)", no? ]

Right. It seems that 2 different streams were working on the stdio package
at the time [pun intended].
Something else: stdio is mostly pronounced `studio' around here.
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