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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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