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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 85d99438 | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by |
| 5 | .\" Chris Torek. | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| 7 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% | |
| 8 | .\" | |
| 9 | .\" @(#)fputs.3 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| 10 | .\" | |
| 11 | .TH FPUTS 3 "" | |
| 12 | .UC 7 | |
| 85d99438 | 13 | .SH NAME |
| 8937b634 | 14 | fputs, puts \- put a line to a stream |
| 85d99438 | 15 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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16 | .nf |
| 17 | .ft B | |
| 18 | #include <stdio.h> | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | int | |
| 21 | fputs(char *str, FILE *stream); | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | int | |
| 24 | puts(char *str); | |
| 25 | .ft R | |
| 26 | .fi | |
| 85d99438 | 27 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 85d99438 | 28 | .I Fputs |
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29 | writes the string |
| 30 | .I str | |
| 31 | to the given | |
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32 | .IR stream . |
| 33 | .PP | |
| 85d99438 | 34 | .I Puts |
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35 | writes the string |
| 36 | .I str | |
| 37 | to the standard output stream | |
| 38 | .BR stdout , | |
| 39 | appending a newline character. | |
| 40 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" | |
| 41 | .I Fputs | |
| 42 | returns 0 on success, | |
| 43 | .B EOF | |
| 44 | on error; | |
| 45 | .I puts | |
| 46 | returns a nonnegative integer on success, | |
| 47 | .B EOF | |
| 48 | on error. | |
| 49 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 50 | putc(3), ferror(3), stdio(3) | |
| 51 | .SH ERRORS | |
| 52 | .TP 15 | |
| 53 | [EBADF] | |
| 54 | .I Stream | |
| 55 | is not a writable stream. | |
| 56 | .PP | |
| 57 | .I Fputs | |
| 58 | and | |
| 59 | .I puts | |
| 60 | may also fail and set | |
| 61 | .I errno | |
| 62 | for any of the errors specified for the routines | |
| 63 | .IR write (2). | |
| 64 | .SH STANDARDS | |
| 65 | .I Fputs | |
| 66 | and | |
| 67 | .I puts | |
| 68 | conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C''). |