Silly newbie question - Caret character (^)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <slrnidm3d9.2ubm.usenet-nospam at guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote:

> On 2010-11-10, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> I was referring to Schildt using gets() all the time and thereby
>> teaching new C generations to do he same.
> 
> Ahh, yes.
> 
> I am told that the current plan is to kill it in C1X.  I would shed no
> tears.

Another function that should be deprecated is strncat—I myself was caught 
out misunderstanding it recently. What purpose does it serve?