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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
These functions return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon success.
- In <EM>ncurses,</EM> failure occurs if the library cannot allocate enough memory
+ In <EM>ncurses</EM>, failure occurs if the library cannot allocate enough memory
for the buffer into which the output is formatted, or if the window
pointer <EM>win</EM> is null.
- Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
- <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and fail if the position is outside the window.
+ Functions prefixed with "mv" first perform cursor movement and fail if
+ the position (<EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>) is outside the window boundaries.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- X/Open Curses, Issue 4, describes these functions. It specifies no
+ X/Open Curses, Issue 4 describes these functions. It specifies no
error conditions for them.
<EM>ncurses</EM> defines <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> and <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> identically to support legacy
applications. However, the latter is obsolete.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses, Issue 4, Version 2 (1996), marked <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> as
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses, Issue 4 Version 2 (1996), marked <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> as
requiring <EM>varargs.h</EM> and "TO BE WITHDRAWN", and specified <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>
using the <EM>stdarg.h</EM> interface.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> X/Open Curses, Issue 5, Draft 2 (December 2007) marked <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>
- (along with <STRONG>vwscanw</STRONG> and the termcap interface) as withdrawn. After
+ (along with <STRONG>vwscanw</STRONG> and the <EM>termcap</EM> interface) as withdrawn. After
incorporating review comments, this became X/Open Curses, Issue 7
(2009).
<EM>varargs.h</EM>, though that had been available since Seventh Edition Unix
(1979). In 1991 (a couple of years after SVr4 was generally available,
and after the C standard was published), other developers updated the
- library, using <EM>stdarg.h</EM> internally in 4.4BSD <EM>curses.</EM> Even with this
+ library, using <EM>stdarg.h</EM> internally in 4.4BSD <EM>curses</EM>. Even with this
improvement, BSD <EM>curses</EM> did not use function prototypes (nor even
declare functions) in <EM>curses.h</EM> until 1992.
-ncurses 6.4 202
3-12-17 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 202
4-04-20 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
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