ncurses 5.5

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

diff --git a/man/curs_instr.3x b/man/curs_instr.3x
index 283ae19a1c4c6aca5f07bcc7007215b9f49516c5..38205a6660759c37526216fdf71da54edc353245 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_instr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_instr.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2001,2005 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            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_instr.3x,v 1.9 2000/07/01 20:05:03 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_instr.3x,v 1.12 2005/05/15 17:48:23 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_instr 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBinstr\fR,
@@ -65,13 +65,14 @@ functions with \fIn\fR as the last argument return a leading substring at most
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 All of the functions return \fBERR\fR upon failure,
 or the number of characters actually read into the string.
+.PP
+X/Open defines no error conditions.
+In this implementation,
+if the window parameter is null or the str parameter is null,
+a zero is returned.
 .SH NOTES
 Note that all routines except \fBwinnstr\fR may be macros.
 .SH PORTABILITY
-The XSI Curses
-error conditions \fBEILSEQ\fR and \fBEILOVERFLOW\fR associated with
-extended-level conformance are not yet detected (this implementation does not
-yet support XPG4 multi-byte characters).
 SVr4 does not
 document whether a length limit includes or excludes the trailing NUL.
 .PP