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steve@dbaccess.com (Steve Suttles) writes:
>The problem is that with gets and strcat and several other routines,
>you pass the address of a destination array and it fills it up.

While strcat (and strcpy, sprintf, etc) doesn't have way to specify
the size of the target memory area, it is very, very different from
gets in that the programmer still can check the size in advance and
avoid problems in that way.  This advance checking is impossible with
the gets interface.  Hence, gets is inherently dangerous, strcat only
if you make a mistake when you use it (easy enough).  An important
distinction, IMHO.

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