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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)fputs.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 33.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd June 4, 1993 36.Dt FPUTS 3 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm fputs , 40.Nm puts 41.Nd output a line to a stream 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In stdio.h 46.Ft int 47.Fn fputs "const char *str" "FILE *stream" 48.Ft int 49.Fn puts "const char *str" 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The function 52.Fn fputs 53writes the string pointed to by 54.Fa str 55to the stream pointed to by 56.Fa stream . 57.\" The terminating 58.\" .Dv NUL 59.\" character is not written. 60.Pp 61The function 62.Fn puts 63writes the string 64.Fa str , 65and a terminating newline character, 66to the stream 67.Dv stdout . 68.Sh RETURN VALUES 69The 70.Fn fputs 71function 72returns 0 on success and 73.Dv EOF 74on error; 75.Fn puts 76returns a nonnegative integer on success and 77.Dv EOF 78on error. 79.Sh ERRORS 80.Bl -tag -width Er 81.It Bq Er EBADF 82The 83.Fa stream 84argument 85is not a writable stream. 86.El 87.Pp 88The functions 89.Fn fputs 90and 91.Fn puts 92may also fail and set 93.Va errno 94for any of the errors specified for the routines 95.Xr write 2 . 96.Sh SEE ALSO 97.Xr ferror 3 , 98.Xr fputws 3 , 99.Xr putc 3 , 100.Xr stdio 3 101.Sh STANDARDS 102The functions 103.Fn fputs 104and 105.Fn puts 106conform to 107.St -isoC . 108