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standard does not define any error conditions. This
implementation returns ERR if the window pointer is null,
or if the lower-level <STRONG>wgetch</STRONG> call returns an ERR.
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SVr3 and early SVr4 curses implementations did not reject
function keys; the SVr4.0 documentation claimed that "spe-
cial keys" (such as function keys, "home" key, "clear"
- key, <EM>etc</EM>.) are interpreted" without giving details. It
+ key, <EM>etc</EM>.) are "interpreted", without giving details. It
lied. In fact, the `character' value appended to the
string by those implementations was predictable but not
useful (being, in fact, the low-order eight bits of the
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