gets(3) nonsense

[Henry Spencer]

In article <4700029 at m.cs.uiuc.edu> kenny at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>... It would be trivial to write a function to do
>>this, and you only have to do it once...
>
>How convenient that the deigners of the stardard C library have done
>this for us already.  It's called fgets().

Note also that a good implementation of fgets (the ones in many old C
libraries are not terribly good) will almost certainly be much faster
than the quick ten-minute hack that you might throw together.  Never
re-invent the wheel unnecessarily; yours may have corners.
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