Hi Bill. 

 BP> saying gets() is unstable. What is a suitable bit of code to use that
 BP> I can substitute for gets(). I've tried all sorts of work arounds
  
gets(buf) is equivalent to fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin)

cu/2 Roland

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