timer.c uses gets

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From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1991 18:43

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timer.c uses gets().  Bad.  atoi ignores trailing junk after the
number anyway, so you can simply replace the gets call with
	(void) fgets(timebuf, sizeof timebuf, stdin);
(Right?)

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