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Message: [QUOTE="Flash Gordon, post: 2451634"] The problem is it *is* *still* *used*. Just search this group for all the times people use gets. If it didn't exist, no one would use it. Because most of the other dangerous features (or problems) have at least some redeeming points, sometimes the redeeming point being that it allows you to write your low level HW access routines in what is basically C with one or two system specific assumptions (i.e. converting 0x1234 to a pointer will give you a pointer to some HW register you need to access). It's easy to believe, since it is the only feature that fundamentally *cannot* be used safely. I'm sure there are far more important things to Keith, just as there are to me. For example, whether my new notebook arrives next week as promised is far more important to me. [/QUOTE]