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Re: char strcat(), strcpy(), *fgets();

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From: Phil Hughes
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1988 20:16

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In article <1309@ark.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> Why do the functions named above return 'char *', instead of 'int', viz. the
> REALLY useful new size of the first argument string, or the number of chars
> moved?

So you can say
	perror(strcat(message," more message"));

or, something like that.




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Phil    uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl

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