char *strcat(), *strcpy(), *fgets();

[Mike Khaw]

>From article <1309 at ark.cs.vu.nl>, by maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath):
> Why do the functions named above return 'char *', instead of 'int', viz. the
> REALLY useful new size of the first argument string, or the number of chars
> moved?

I suppose it's so that you can do

	strcpy(foo, strcat(bar, fgets(baz, size, stream)));

(Not that I do such things often).

Mike Khaw
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