Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:02:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy" <pdestroy AT netcabo DOT pt>
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Subject: Re: fgets Max Chars
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy wrote:

> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(void) {
>     char *s;
> 
>     s=malloc(3000);
> 
>     fgets(s, 3000, stdin);
>     return 1;
> }
> 
> Althought I malloced 3000 chars I am only able to write 129...

Modify your program like shown below, and it will do what you expect.

(Although generally a good idea, tcflush is not really needed in the
particular case of this simple test program.  I used it because it
causes termios to kick in and handle console input, instead of DOS.
This works around the limitations of the DOS console device driver.)

 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <termios.h>
 
 int main(void) {
     char *s;
 
     s=malloc(3000);
 
     tcflush(fileno(stdin), TCIFLUSH);
     fgets(s, 3000, stdin);
     return 1;
 }