Re: Where is error checking on fgets() addressed in FAQ?

From: Malcolm (malcolm_at_55bank.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 05/02/04 

Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 15:02:23 +0100

"William L. Bahn" <william@toomuchspam.net> wrote in message
> I recently challenged one of my students to figure out a way to
> determine if fgets() actually received the entire contents of the input
> string.
> Could someone provide the topic number that deals with trapping
> this occurance (if one exists)?
>
We had a huge row about this a few years ago and the FAQ maintainer still
hasn't come round to admitting that I was right.

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