Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu!kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu!rob From: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Re^2: retiring gets(3) Message-ID: <1105@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 28 Nov 88 21:38:03 GMT References: <5450@saturn.ucsc.edu> <225800095@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1704@solo9.cs.vu.nl> <4881@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) Organization: Ohio State Univ, College of Engineering Lines: 15 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).