1.\" $NetBSD: fputs.3,v 1.4 1995/02/02 01:15:40 jtc 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 SYNOPSIS 48.Fd #include <stdio.h> 49.Ft int 50.Fn fputs "const char *str" "FILE *stream" 51.Ft int 52.Fn puts "const char *str" 53.Sh DESCRIPTION 54The function 55.Fn fputs 56writes the string pointed to by 57.Fa str 58to the stream pointed to by 59.Fa stream . 60.\" The terminating 61.\" .Dv NUL 62.\" character is not written. 63.Pp 64The function 65.Fn puts 66writes the string 67.Fa str , 68and a terminating newline character, 69to the stream 70.Em stdout . 71.Sh RETURN VALUES 72The 73.Fn fputs 74function 75returns 0 on success and 76.Dv EOF 77on error; 78.Fn puts 79returns a nonnegative integer on success and 80.Dv EOF 81on error. 82.Sh ERRORS 83.Bl -tag -width Er 84.It Bq Er EBADF 85The 86.Fa stream 87supplied 88is not a writable stream. 89.El 90.Pp 91The functions 92.Fn fputs 93and 94.Fn puts 95may also fail and set 96.Va errno 97for any of the errors specified for the routines 98.Xr write 2 . 99.Sh SEE ALSO 100.Xr putc 3 , 101.Xr ferror 3 , 102.Xr stdio 3 103.Sh STANDARDS 104The functions 105.Fn fputs 106and 107.Fn puts 108conform to 109.St -ansiC . 110