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.TH FGETLINE 3 "15. Juli 1988" "J\*org Schilling" "Schily\'s LIBRARY FUNCTIONS"
.SH NAME
fgetline() \- gets a line from a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B
int fgetline(f,buf,length)
.B	FILE *f;
.B	char *buf;
.B	int length;
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
fgetline() reads up to length characters from the input file
using getc() (q.v.). The transfer is also terminated by a
newline, end of file, or read error. The newline character is
stripped and the string is NULL ('\\0') terminated.
.SH RETURNS
.TP
.B >=0
the number of bytes read.
.TP
.B < 0
if an error occurred.
.SH NOTES
none