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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Input Line Editing
Message-ID: <11966@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 88 11:33:35 GMT
References: <16553@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <16553@brl-adm.ARPA> by rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim):
+---------------
| ? From: Gregg Wonderly <gregg@a.cs.okstate.edu>
| 
| ? I just solved that problem here by writing a KSH style history and
| ? command line editor subroutine that is called gets().
| 
| As you no doubt already know, there is already a function named gets().
| How about choosing another name?
+---------------

Uh, Jim, given that we're talking about retrofitting smart line editing into
existing programs, what's easier than replacing libc.a(gets.o)?  (Aside from
doing so in a shlib so you don't have to recompile every program on the
system?)

++Brandon
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