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From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <188@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Nov 88 09:41:52 GMT
References: <8841@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Nov11.232629.15414@utstat.uucp> <8876@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <8876@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <1988Nov11.232629.15414@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
> 
> >That's the whole point, Doug.  People *should* fix their existing code;
> >it's unsafe.
> 
> Bullshit.  When I use gets() I use it safely.

Please give us an example of your safe use of gets().
-- 
Richard Kennaway
School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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