tbl bug + fix

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From: Dave Davey
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1988 22:49

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tbl will dump core if given a long (>256) input line for a text block.
In tg.c, gettext() calls gets1(line) with line dimensioned to 256,
but gets1 calls fgets with n=BUFSIZ.

Fix:
	in tg.c gettext() change declaration of line to:
	char line[BUFSIZ];

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From: daved@physiol.su.oz (Dave Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: tbl bug + fix
Keywords: long input lines
Message-ID: <338@physiol.su.oz>
Date: 10 Oct 88 22:49:07 GMT
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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