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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: mixing scanf and gets
Message-ID: <369@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Apr-86 00:40:07 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.369
Posted: Thu Apr 10 00:40:07 1986
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References: <2476@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: Never use gets()/fgets() for binary.  Use fread().

In article <2476@brl-smoke.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Which brings me to another point. Fgets is worthless on binary
>data. It returns its first argument, which I already know.
>	...  I would like fgets to return the number of chars read.

T h a t  is what fread() is for.  Use it.  Having an element-size
and a number-of-elements is useful when doing, e.g., structure I/O,
otherwise it is a bit of a pain, I'll agree.

[BTW, we have some decent pinball machines down at this end of
Montgomery County, tho I can't recall seeing Big Injun.]
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}