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