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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:06:26 +0200
From: Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za>
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Hi there ...

Whenever I use gets(3) to read from
stdin, I get 

warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe. 

The program works ok, no problem there.  But I
don't like that error.  Is there someting else
I can use, or maybe a work-around to read
from stdin.

Thanks

-Jacuqes

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The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better"
			... so I got BSD

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