Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!rbutterworth From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Re^2: retiring gets(3) Message-ID: <22449@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 28 Nov 88 19:28:17 GMT References: <5450@saturn.ucsc.edu> <225800095@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <4881@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19 In article <4881@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) writes: > In article <1704@solo9.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: > :\I don't understand how you can get something like > :\ gets(3); > :\past a compiler. Isn't 'gets' supposed to take a char * argument, > :\not an int literal? > : > :You should have crossposted to rec.humor.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. And don't forget, this is "comp.lang.c". I don't see anything about unix there. There are a lot of people that use C that don't use unix. The name(section) convention is strictly a unix documentation convention and has nothing to do with the c language or its documentation on other systems.