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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: fgets() returns NULL at EOF??
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Date: Thu, 28-Aug-86 20:55:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 28 20:55:46 1986
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> O great C gurus, help a relative greenhorn!  Why is it that fgets()
> returns NULL when it reaches end of file, whereas all the other
> standard i/o functions seem to return EOF at that point?  This
> confuses me, especially since one would suppose fputs() to be the
> partner function of fgets() and therefore to work in the same way.
> 
> Sterling Bjorndahl
> BJORNDAS at CLARGRAD on BITNET

Ah, heck.  Next you'll complain because fgets() and gets() do different
things to the \n at the end of a string.

There are days I wish every line of C currently existing would evaporate,
so that the I/O functions could be...rationalized.

Clayton E. Cramer