Im currently trying to port a Cobol toolkit to HP-UX 9.04.
I  have some serious problems with the input procedure.
So it seems to me that the source that is needed for our input routine can
be written in C with al least half as much troubles.

I need a program (which i'll link as an object) which does nomore than :
       * Given from the main program the max-length of the input variable
(integer 4 positions)
       * And returning to the main program  the real length and the input
variable (character/string 256 posit

If somebody is going to spend the few minutes to write this little program
for me, please consider that it must be clean C for HP-UX 9.04

If that works the last problem according to my toolkit is gone.

Thank you !

Daniel O.A. van Doorn

Hi D.O.A. van Doorn,

Interactive user input is one of the weaker points of the standard
C language, depending on the level of comfort that you want to offer.

   success = fgets( buffer, MAX_LENGTH, stdin );

   strlen( buffer );

I really do not think it is a good idea to attempt to program in C,
if you do not know how to program in C.

Stephan
(initiator of the campaign against grumpiness in c.l.c)