* In a message originally to Edward Fuller, Bill Patterson writes:

 EF> The following is taken from K&R's book "The C Programming
Language", page
 EF> 165, 1st edition:
 EF> 
 EF> /* fgets: get at most n char from iop */
 EF> char *fgets(char *s, int n, FILE *iop)
 EF> {
 EF>    register int c;
 EF>    register char *cs;
 EF> 
 EF>    cs = s;
 EF>    while (--n > 0 && (c = getc(iop)) != EOF)
 EF>       if ((*ds++ = c) == '\n')
 EF>          break;
 EF> 
 EF>    *cs = '\0';
 EF>    return (c == EOF && cs == s) ? NULL : s;
 EF> }
 EF> 
 EF> Note: fgets reads the next input line (includeing the newline) from the
 EF> file iop into the character array s, at most n-1 characters will be read.
 EF> gets deletes the terminal '\n' and puts adds it.
 EF> 
 EF> --- FLAME v1.1

Edward,
   Yep, that's the code I tried. Won't work under gcc2. Works under EMX
though. Thanks!

Bill


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