Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <1988Nov13.005043.22597@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Nov8.054845.23998@utstat.uucp> <8841@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 88 00:50:43 GMT

In article <8841@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>I think the appropriate treatment of gets() is to omit it from the
>documentation or to document it...  But leave it in the library.

Actually, my suggestion to Geoff (which he did mention, note) was that
it ought to go into a separate backwards-compatibility library.  That
way it's available, *but* you have to ask for it explicitly.
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