Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <1988Nov13.005133.22717@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Nov8.054845.23998@utstat.uucp> <1031@cps3xx.UUCP> <8847@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 88 00:51:33 GMT

In article <8847@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>... if your program can be sure that the line
>will fit, there is nothing wrong with using gets().

That's a large "if" in most cases, however.
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