ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230812

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_print.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_print.3x b/man/curs_print.3x
index 1d17add974c2f913bb256119990b5202d8fdc18e..bbaeaa9014595c71a4c9fa455069773797182190 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_print.3x
+++ b/man/curs_print.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2021,2022 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *

 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *


@@ -26,28 +27,31 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"

-.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.12 2017/11/20 01:27:30 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_print 3X ""
+.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.20 2022/02/12 20:05:11 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_print 3X 2022-02-12 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"

 .SH NAME
 .SH NAME

-\fBmcprint\fR \- ship binary data to printer
+\fBmcprint\fP \- ship binary data to printer

 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .SH SYNOPSIS

-\fB#include <curses.h>\fR
+\fB#include <curses.h>\fP

 .sp
 .sp

-\fBint mcprint(char *data, int len);\fR
+\fBint mcprint(char *\fIdata\fB, int \fIlen\fB);\fR

 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .SH DESCRIPTION

-This function uses the \fBmc5p\fR or \fBmc4\fR and \fBmc5\fR capabilities,
+This function uses the \fBmc5p\fP or \fBmc4\fP and \fBmc5\fP capabilities,

 if they are present, to ship given data to a printer attached to the terminal.
 .PP
 if they are present, to ship given data to a printer attached to the terminal.
 .PP

-Note that the \fBmcprint\fR code has no way to do flow control with the printer
-or to know how much buffering it has.  Your application is responsible for
+Note that the \fBmcprint\fP code has no way to do flow control with the printer
+or to know how much buffering it has.
+Your application is responsible for

 keeping the rate of writes to the printer below its continuous throughput rate
 keeping the rate of writes to the printer below its continuous throughput rate

-(typically about half of its nominal cps rating).  Dot-matrix printers and
+(typically about half of its nominal cps rating).
+Dot-matrix printers and

 6-page-per-minute lasers can typically handle 80cps, so a good conservative
 rule of thumb is to sleep for a second after shipping each 80-character line.
 .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 6-page-per-minute lasers can typically handle 80cps, so a good conservative
 rule of thumb is to sleep for a second after shipping each 80-character line.
 .
 .SH RETURN VALUE

-The \fBmcprint\fR function returns \fBERR\fR if the write operation aborted
-for some reason.  In this case, errno will contain either an error associated
+The \fBmcprint\fP function returns \fBERR\fP if the write operation aborted
+for some reason.
+In this case, \fBerrno\fP will contain either an error associated

 with \fBwrite\fP(2) or one of the following:
 .TP 5
 ENODEV
 with \fBwrite\fP(2) or one of the following:
 .TP 5
 ENODEV


@@ -56,13 +60,13 @@ Capabilities for printer redirection do not exist.
 ENOMEM
 Couldn't allocate sufficient memory to buffer the printer write.
 .PP
 ENOMEM
 Couldn't allocate sufficient memory to buffer the printer write.
 .PP

-When \fBmcprint\fR succeeds, it returns the number of characters actually
+When \fBmcprint\fP succeeds, it returns the number of characters actually

 sent to the printer.
 .SH PORTABILITY
 sent to the printer.
 .SH PORTABILITY

-The \fBmcprint\fR call was designed for \fBncurses\fR(3X), and is not found
+The \fBmcprint\fP call was designed for \fBncurses\fP(3X), and is not found

 in SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous version of curses.
 .SH BUGS
 in SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous version of curses.
 .SH BUGS

-Padding in the \fBmc5p\fR, \fBmc4\fR and \fBmc5\fR capabilities will not be
+Padding in the \fBmc5p\fP, \fBmc4\fP and \fBmc5\fP capabilities will not be

 interpreted.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 interpreted.
 .SH SEE ALSO

-\fBcurses\fR(3X)
+\fBcurses\fP(3X)