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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Using gets() [ Was Re: nn ]
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 22:24:57 GMT
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In article <233748$qa8@agate.berkeley.edu> bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
> I agree in principle, but it isn't possible.  ANSI C requires the
> gets() function in the C library, so requiring the user to specify
> that they wish to use it explicitly at compile time isn't possible.

Sure it is. ANSI doesn't specify the command line required to get a
fully ANSI environment, so you can just say "if you want a REAL ANSI
environment with all the ANSI bugs, specify "-D__OBSOLETE__ -lobsolete"".
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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