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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gets(3) nonsense
Message-ID: <6544@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 23 Nov 88 07:55:12 GMT
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Reply-To: wagner@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: XEROX Palo Alto Research Center
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printf, fprintf, et al. all use an internal buffer of finite size. May I
quote from the manual:

	BUGS
	     Very wide fields (>128 characters) fail.

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Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com