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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Input Line Editing
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Date: 23 Jul 88 13:08:04 GMT
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In article <11933@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>???  Why not just a modified version of gets()?

Gets has a major bug: it has no way of detecting the end of buffer
passed to it.  I use fgets(stdin, ... instead.

[I expected someone else to mention this earlier.]


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