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        !            20: .TH GETS 3  "June 23, 1990"
        !            21: .AT 3
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: gets - get a line from stdin
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .nf
        !            26: .ft B
        !            27: #include <stdio.h>
        !            28: 
        !            29: char *gets(s)
        !            30: char *s;
        !            31: .ft R
        !            32: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            33: .ft B
        !            34: This interface is obsoleted by fgets(3).
        !            35: As it makes no effort to avoid overwriting its buffer, 
        !            36: it's a clear security problem.
        !            37: .br
        !            38: It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat.
        !            39: .ft R
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: The
        !            42: .I gets
        !            43: function reads characters from the input stream pointed to by
        !            44: .IR stdin ,
        !            45: into the array pointed to by
        !            46: .IR s ,
        !            47: until end-of-file is encountered or a new-line character is read.
        !            48: Any newline character is discarded, and a null character is written
        !            49: immediately after the last character read into the array.
        !            50: .PP
        !            51: The
        !            52: .I gets
        !            53: function returns
        !            54: .I s
        !            55: if successful.
        !            56: If end-of-file is encountered and no characters have been read into
        !            57: the array, the contents of the array remain unchanged and a null
        !            58: pointer is returned.
        !            59: If a read error occurrs during the operation, the array contents
        !            60: are indeterminate and a null pointer is returned.
        !            61: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            62: getc(3), ferror(3) fread(3), scanf(3)
        !            63: .SH STANDARDS
        !            64: The
        !            65: .I gets
        !            66: function is ANSI C compatible.

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