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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Substitute for gets()
Summary: C trivia
Message-ID: <3909@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 14:19:45 GMT
References: <721@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <1989Feb8.223554.27192@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1989Feb8.223554.27192@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Printf() was an experiment that worked;
The printf we have today is not the same as the original (pre K&R) printf,
its first argument was a file descriptor.  I think the file descriptor was
dropped from printf when fprintf and FILEs were invented.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbnews!lvc or lvc@cbnews.att.com
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