.\" authorization. *
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-.\" $Id: curs_getstr.3x,v 1.22 2017/05/30 21:08:31 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_getstr.3x,v 1.23 2017/11/21 00:45:48 tom Exp $
.TH curs_getstr 3X ""
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These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.
They read single-byte characters only.
The standard does not define any error conditions.
-This implementation returns ERR if the window pointer is null,
-or if the lower-level \fBwgetch\fR(3X) call returns an ERR.
+This implementation returns \fBERR\fP if the window pointer is null,
+or if the lower-level \fBwgetch\fR(3X) call returns an \fBERR\fP.
.PP
SVr3 and early SVr4 curses implementations did not reject function keys;
the SVr4.0 documentation claimed that \*(``special keys\*(''