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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Blank trimmer
Summary: GACK!
Message-ID: <358@s1.Morgan.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 15:23:19 GMT
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Reply-To: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Tom Neff <tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET> writes:

	This is one of those nasty hacks purists get on your case for
	because you can do it all with sed(1).  However I have a
	specialized application where I use real long lines ...

>Xmain()
>X{
>X	char s[65536];		/*  whatever  */
>X
>X	while (gets(s) != NULL)

No, this is one of those nasty hacks purists get on your case about
because you use gets() instead of fgets() ...

/jordan