Re: Some ideas about c?

From	Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Some ideas about c?
References	(2 earlier) <C++-20170518184518@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <ZElTA.135188$uG1.80502@fx08.iad> <87bmqp7utb.fsf@gmail.com> <MGBTA.105515$MW5.55925@fx36.iad> <2411fc21-015a-bf11-42b4-a9a4ecdba53b@verizon.net>
Date	2017-05-19 18:52 +0100
Message-ID	<87y3tswx7a.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink)

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"James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:

> On 05/19/2017 08:38 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> writes:
>>> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>>
>>>> int main() { char buffer[512]; fputs(fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer),
>>>> stdin), stdout); }
>>>
>>> Great.  Except it doesn't work if the input line is too big.
>>
>> Sure it does.  It just truncates it.  And the programmer is, of
>> course, aware of that.
>
> The C++ code that it supposedly replaced had no such
> behavior. Therefore, it fails to be a proper replacement for that
> code.

Thank you James.  I kept going back to see if I'd missed something.

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Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-17 23:23 +0300
  Re: Some ideas about c? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:40 +1200
  Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-17 23:00 +0200
    Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-17 14:59 -0700
      Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 00:08 +0200
        Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-17 22:09 -0700
          Re: Some ideas about c? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-18 18:22 +1200
          Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 12:36 +0200
            Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 03:53 -0700
              Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 14:24 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 08:37 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 05:47 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 15:20 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 06:28 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-18 13:56 +0000
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 16:30 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 07:45 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-18 16:08 +0100
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:15 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 11:46 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-18 21:33 +0300
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 15:29 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 01:23 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 18:12 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 10:08 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 00:39 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-19 14:27 +0300
                Re: Some ideas about c? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-05-19 13:41 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-19 13:04 +0100
                Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 10:00 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 14:14 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 11:33 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:47 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 08:48 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 09:02 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 10:52 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 15:35 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 14:01 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 17:38 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 15:54 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 22:17 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:06 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 09:17 -0700
  Re: Some ideas about c? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2017-05-17 14:34 -0700
    Re: Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-18 16:16 +0300
  Re: Some ideas about c? Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-18 10:26 -0300
  Re: Some ideas about c? John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 07:36 -0700
    Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-18 18:23 +0000
      Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 21:51 +0100
        Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 12:38 +0000
          Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-19 07:44 -0700
            Re: Some ideas about c? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-19 16:45 +0100
              Re: Some ideas about c? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-19 21:59 -0700
            Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 10:06 -0700
              Re: Some ideas about c? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-19 18:18 +0100
                Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 11:59 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-19 21:05 +0100
          Re: Some ideas about c? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-05-19 12:42 -0400
            Re: Some ideas about c? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-19 17:54 +0100
            Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 18:52 +0100
          Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 18:51 +0100
            Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 18:55 +0000
              Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 19:58 +0100
              Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 12:12 -0700
            Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 12:01 -0700
    Re: Some ideas about c? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-19 08:22 +1200
      Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 21:53 +0100
      Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 12:36 +0000
        Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 18:54 +0100
          Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 18:58 +0000
            Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 12:18 -0700

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