From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Newbie question - want to have one function in a separate file, how do I code?
Date: 11 Jan 1999 18:18:52 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Stuart Hall (fprintf AT iname DOT com) wrote:
: I have made an implementation of gets() that is a lot safer than the
: standard function - it is safer because it won't overrun an array.

You mean like the fgets() function?

: I would like to include this function in just about every program that
: I write, but I don't really want to write the function prototype and
: copy and paste the function into every program.  Is there a method for
: placing either the Object file, or the C file in a common location and
: calling for it with an #include statement?

Make a library and a header file. You include the header file, and add
-l<my_library> to the link line.

Right,

							MartinS