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From: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
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Subject: Re: Re^2: retiring gets(3)
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Date: 28 Nov 88 21:38:03 GMT
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In article <4881@boulder.Colorado.EDU> swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU 
(Frank Swarbrick) writes:
> [ a poor person isn't familiar with Ugh!nix manual pages, and asks
>   about the silly 3; somebody else thinks that's funny. ]
>I don't see what's so funny about it.  It's a very legitimate question if you
>don't have much experience with UNIX. The only thing I use UNIX for is reading
>these messages, and I have no idea what the '3' means, though I do know that
>it's not meant as a parameter.

Seconded.  Nor should you know, since, as all good people are aware, we
*never* use numbers for things that are not numbers, such as
categories (Eunuchs manual pages notwithstanding).

SR
Besides, the correct entry is gets(46).