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From: "James Colannino" <james@colannino.org>
Subject: Confusing Prototype
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:00:23 -0700
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Hey everyone.  I was looking at the prototype for fgets and noticed the 
following:

char *fgets(char *s, int size, FILE *stream);

I'm confused because it says that it returns a pointer to a character, 
but at the same time it stores a string at the address pointed to by 
char *s, so why does it also need to return a pointer?  I'm confused.  
Thanks in advance.

James