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+/* linebuffer.h -- declarations for reading arbitrarily long lines
+ Copyright (C) 1986, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
+
+/* A `struct linebuffer' holds a line of text. */
+
+struct linebuffer
+{
+ long size; /* Allocated. */
+ long length; /* Used. */
+ char *buffer;
+};
+
+#ifdef __STDC__
+/* Initialize linebuffer LINEBUFFER for use. */
+void initbuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer);
+
+/* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
+ Remove any newline. Does not null terminate.
+ Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0. */
+struct linebuffer *readline (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream);
+
+/* Free linebuffer LINEBUFFER and its data, all allocated with malloc. */
+void freebuffer (struct linebuffer *);
+#else
+void initbuffer ();
+struct linebuffer *readline ();
+void freebuffer ();
+#endif