VMS Help CC, Run-time functions, fgets  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  Reads a line from a specified file, up to one less than the
  specified maximum number of characters or up to and including the
  new-line character, whichever comes first.  The string is stored in
  the argument str.

  Syntax:

       #include <stdio.h>

       char *fgets(char *str, int maxchar, FILE *file_ptr);