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.\" 38.Dd June 4, 1993 39.Dt FPUTS 3 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm fputs , 43.Nm puts 44.Nd output a line to a stream 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Fd #include <stdio.h> 47.Ft int 48.Fn fputs "const char *str" "FILE *stream" 49.Ft int 50.Fn puts "const char *str" 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The function 53.Fn fputs 54writes the string pointed to by 55.Fa str 56to the stream pointed to by 57.Fa stream . 58.\" The terminating 59.\" .Dv NUL 60.\" character is not written. 61.Pp 62The function 63.Fn puts 64writes the string 65.Fa str , 66and a terminating newline character, 67to the stream 68.Em stdout . 69.Sh RETURN VALUES 70The 71.Fn fputs 72function 73returns 0 on success and 74.Dv EOF 75on error; 76.Fn puts 77returns a nonnegative integer on success and 78.Dv EOF 79on error. 80.Sh ERRORS 81.Bl -tag -width [EBADF] 82.It Bq Er EBADF 83The 84.Fa stream 85supplied 86is not a writable stream. 87.El 88.Pp 89The functions 90.Fn fputs 91and 92.Fn puts 93may also fail and set 94.Va errno 95for any of the errors specified for the routines 96.Xr write 2 . 97.Sh SEE ALSO 98.Xr putc 3 , 99.Xr ferror 3 , 100.Xr stdio 3 101.Sh STANDARDS 102The functions 103.Fn fputs 104and 105.Fn puts 106conform to 107.St -ansiC . 108