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-<H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>inchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>inchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinchstr</STRONG>,
<STRONG>mvinchnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinchstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinchnstr</STRONG> - get a string of
characters (and attributes) from a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
-</PRE>
-<H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>inchstr(chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>*chstr);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
-</PRE>
-<H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
These routines return a NULL-terminated array of <STRONG>chtype</STRONG>
quantities, starting at the current cursor position in the
named window and ending at the right margin of the window.
the <EM>chstr</EM> [see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>].
-</PRE>
-<H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
All routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an
integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon successful completion
(the number of characters retrieved, exclusive of the
trailing 0).
- No error conditions are defined. If the <EM>chstr</EM> parameter
- is null, no data is returned, and the return value is ze-
- ro.
+ X/Open Curses defines no error conditions. In this imple-
+ mentation:
+
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If the <EM>win</EM> parameter is null, an error is returned,
- Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
- ment using <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> If the <EM>chstr</EM> parameter is null, an error is returned,
+
+ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
+ ment using <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is
outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
-</PRE>
-<H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
- Note that all routines except <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG> may be macros.
- SVr4 does not document whether the result string is zero-
- terminated; it does not document whether a length limit
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
+ Note that all routines except <STRONG>winchnstr</STRONG> may be macros.
+ SVr4 does not document whether the result string is zero-
+ terminated; it does not document whether a length limit
argument includes any trailing 0; and it does not document
the meaning of the return value.
-</PRE>
-<H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,
- Issue 4. It is no more specific than the SVr4 documenta-
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+ These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,
+ Issue 4. It is no more specific than the SVr4 documenta-
tion on the trailing 0. It does specify that the success-
ful return of the functions is <STRONG>OK</STRONG>.
-</PRE>
-<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inch.3x.html">curs_inch(3x)</A></STRONG>.
- Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) li-
+ Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) li-
brary are described in <STRONG><A HREF="curs_in_wchstr.3x.html">curs_in_wchstr(3x)</A></STRONG>.