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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some ideas about c?
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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.