Tushar kant wrote: > Hi, i'm Tushar kant....i'm in school and for we have c in our > course...in our books they've mentioned using gets for line input and > getchar for un buffered character input but both don't seen to work > very well with gcc....could you help out as to why is it so and how to > remedy this. Wikipedia might help you get useful answers quicker, in case your books are so deficient. Usual etiquette is to perform preliminary investigations and report how your situation isn't covered by the answers you found.