From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: What's the command? Date: 22 Jul 1999 22:53:11 GMT Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 13 Message-ID: <7n87cn$e5f$1@news.luth.se> References: <7mqe9a$2mlh$1 AT nnrp01 DOT ops DOT uunet DOT co DOT za> <4psk3.9156$yD2 DOT 21461 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com> <3796D534 DOT 541ED37F AT nochance DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: queeg.ludd.luth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Edward Hill (ha AT nochance DOT com) wrote: : And you offered a potentially hazardous function that can overrun the : input : buffer. Well, [fs]scanf isn't so bad. You have the possibility of limiting how much you want to read. "fgets(buffer, 100, f)" <=> "fscanf(f, "%100[^\n]", buffer)". Right, MartinS