1.\" $NetBSD: fputs.3,v 1.10 2003/04/16 13:34:44 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, 8.\" on Information Processing Systems. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 19.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 20.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 21.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 22.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 23.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 24.\" without specific prior written permission. 25.\" 26.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 27.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 28.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 29.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 30.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 31.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 32.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 33.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 34.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 35.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 36.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 37.\" 38.\" @(#)fputs.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 39.\" 40.Dd June 4, 1993 41.Dt FPUTS 3 42.Os 43.Sh NAME 44.Nm fputs , 45.Nm puts 46.Nd output a line to a stream 47.Sh LIBRARY 48.Lb libc 49.Sh SYNOPSIS 50.In stdio.h 51.Ft int 52.Fn fputs "const char * restrict str" "FILE * restrict stream" 53.Ft int 54.Fn puts "const char *str" 55.Sh DESCRIPTION 56The function 57.Fn fputs 58writes the string pointed to by 59.Fa str 60to the stream pointed to by 61.Fa stream . 62.\" The terminating 63.\" .Dv NUL 64.\" character is not written. 65.Pp 66The function 67.Fn puts 68writes the string 69.Fa str , 70and a terminating newline character, 71to the stream 72.Em stdout . 73.Sh RETURN VALUES 74The 75.Fn fputs 76function 77returns 0 on success and 78.Dv EOF 79on error; 80.Fn puts 81returns a nonnegative integer on success and 82.Dv EOF 83on error. 84.Sh ERRORS 85.Bl -tag -width Er 86.It Bq Er EBADF 87The 88.Fa stream 89supplied 90is not a writable stream. 91.El 92.Pp 93The functions 94.Fn fputs 95and 96.Fn puts 97may also fail and set 98.Va errno 99for any of the errors specified for the routines 100.Xr write 2 . 101.Sh SEE ALSO 102.Xr ferror 3 , 103.Xr putc 3 , 104.Xr stdio 3 105.Sh STANDARDS 106The functions 107.Fn fputs 108and 109.Fn puts 110conform to 111.St -ansiC . 112