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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Using gets() [ Was Re: nn ] Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1993 13:13:13 GMT Message-ID: <CAq222.8E4@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <OLEG.93Jul17185604@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> <1993Jul19.005949.28286@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> <CAKu2r.10rt@austin.ibm.com> Lines: 13 In article <CAKu2r.10rt@austin.ibm.com> boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com writes: > I will not debate whether the function is a good one or not. However, > since it is included for the sake of compatibility, I would argue that > it should be distributed in a fashion that allows its use. I agree. gets should work as documented, but it should probably be stuck in an "obsolete" library, to be linked in as "-lobso" for programs that use broken functions. Stick strtok in there as well :>. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur pu fadmad ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."