05 Jan 96 23:31, Roy McNeill wrote to David Nugent:

 DN>> Summary: gets() is dangerous - don't use it.

 DN>> I'm surprised you haven't seen warnings though - most compiler 
 DN>> vendors actually *do* say something about this in the 
 DN>> documentation.

 > my BC++4.0 docs have no warnings. Somehow I'm not surprised.

Likewise the online documentation for Borland C++ for OS/2 1.0, Borland C++
for DOS 3.1 and Microsoft QuickC 2.50.  The WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 and emx/gcc
.INF files do recommend use of fgets() over gets().

So there.

Andrew

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