diff --git a/1993/schnitzi/README.md b/1993/schnitzi/README.md
index 5a148f35f..24516cb0c 100644
--- a/1993/schnitzi/README.md
+++ b/1993/schnitzi/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
         make all
 
+[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) made this use `fgets()`
+not `gets()` to make it safer. Thank you Cody for your assistance!
+
 ### To run
 
 	./schnitzi file
diff --git a/1993/schnitzi/schnitzi.c b/1993/schnitzi/schnitzi.c
index 584e752dc..55c4232b3 100644
--- a/1993/schnitzi/schnitzi.c
+++ b/1993/schnitzi/schnitzi.c
@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@
  )               printf (       " %s",li1[l1l++]  )                      ;puts
 (                   "."  )       ;}}else{sprintf (    il1,"cat %s;echo",lll[1]
  )              ;system (                    il1  )                   ;}printf
-(                "\n? "  )                 ;gets (                         il1
+(                "\n? "  )                ; fgets (   il1, 111    ,      stdin
  )             ;sprintf (  i1l,"%s %s %s",lll[!1  ]        ,lll[1],il1);system
 (                 i1l);  }