In article <8847 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: >... if your program can be sure that the line >will fit, there is nothing wrong with using gets(). That's a large "if" in most cases, however. -- Sendmail is a bug, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology not a feature. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry at zoo.toronto.edu