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 LIBRARY 47.Lb libc 48.Sh SYNOPSIS 49.In stdio.h 50.Ft int 51.Fn fputs "const char *str" "FILE *stream" 52.Ft int 53.Fn puts "const char *str" 54.Sh DESCRIPTION 55The function 56.Fn fputs 57writes the string pointed to by 58.Fa str 59to the stream pointed to by 60.Fa stream . 61.\" The terminating 62.\" .Dv NUL 63.\" character is not written. 64.Pp 65The function 66.Fn puts 67writes the string 68.Fa str , 69and a terminating newline character, 70to the stream 71.Dv stdout . 72.Sh RETURN VALUES 73The 74.Fn fputs 75function 76returns 0 on success and 77.Dv EOF 78on error; 79.Fn puts 80returns a nonnegative integer on success and 81.Dv EOF 82on error. 83.Sh ERRORS 84.Bl -tag -width Er 85.It Bq Er EBADF 86The 87.Fa stream 88argument 89is not a writable stream. 90.El 91.Pp 92The functions 93.Fn fputs 94and 95.Fn puts 96may also fail and set 97.Va errno 98for any of the errors specified for the routines 99.Xr write 2 . 100.Sh SEE ALSO 101.Xr ferror 3 , 102.Xr fputws 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 -isoC . 112