retiring gets(3)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <8841 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>I think the appropriate treatment of gets() is to omit it from the
>documentation or to document it...  But leave it in the library.

Actually, my suggestion to Geoff (which he did mention, note) was that
it ought to go into a separate backwards-compatibility library.  That
way it's available, *but* you have to ask for it explicitly.
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