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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: retiring gets(3)
Message-ID: <8946@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Nov 88 03:31:05 GMT
References: <1988Nov14.220842.3980@utstat.uucp> <8902@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Nov16.184238.16375@utzoo.uucp> <8915@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Nov19.214209.27406@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1988Nov19.214209.27406@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>What "work harder"?  It's a few more characters of typing.

It's considerably more than "a few characters".  Enough so that if I
didn't have gets() I'd write one and add it to my personal library.