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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gets limits?
Message-ID: <10118@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Apr 89 05:28:26 GMT
References: <9300001@scsmo1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9300001@scsmo1.UUCP> tim@scsmo1.UUCP writes:
>What does ANSI say about gets.  It seem to me that there is NO way to
>figure out how big to make the buffer for the beast.

Yes, that's right.

>what rules should be followed with gets[?]

Use it only when you know that the buffer will not be overrun.
In other case, use something like fgets().