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On 9 Aug 1995, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

> Jens Andreasen <jens-and@dsv.su.se> writes:
> >Well, getchar() seems to be a bit on the implementation defined side and
> >gets() can be considered playing russian roulette :-|

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> Better yet, you could learn about fgets().

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 [Reaching out for 'Schildt', study.. , mumble mumble..]

Yes, thats it, thankyou. Why wasn't gets implemented in this way?

> What do you mean "hang"?  Come to that, just _which_ buffer do you mean?

That's the point. I'm talking about systems in general, not this or that 
welldefined system. So I can't tell you anything about the hardware. The 
system need not even to be designed yet. But yes, I am considering 
different types of terminals.

> - what's a user?  C is used on systems that _have_ no user. 

I agree on that, but very often there is some kind of input from the 
horrible outside world of undefined behavior. I would like to be able 
to reject all input that is *not* defined as legal in the program..

 ..and fgets seems to be able to deliver some of the goods.

// Jens M Andreasen (not responding to this thread anymore).