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From: egisin@WATERLOO.CSNET (Eric Gisin)
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Subject: Re: VMS output
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Actually, I can't duplicate the problem with my test program:

#include <stdio.h>
     
main() {
        int     i;
        char buf [1000+1];
        freopen("tt:", "w", stdout /*"rfm=udf"*/);
        for (i=0; i<1000; i++)
                buf[i] = 'x';
        buf[i] = '\0';
        fputs(buf, stdout);
}

No extra characters appear in the output.
I've got VMS 4.2 and C 2.1.