ncurses 5.5

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

diff --git a/man/curs_instr.3x b/man/curs_instr.3x
index d3a7e6f7d085b8ffe9c8a06975a68980cc6efe5a..38205a6660759c37526216fdf71da54edc353245 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_instr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_instr.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 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            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *


@@ -26,12 +26,17 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"

-.\" $Id: curs_instr.3x,v 1.8 1998/03/11 21:12:53 juergen Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_instr.3x,v 1.12 2005/05/15 17:48:23 tom Exp $

 .TH curs_instr 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 .TH curs_instr 3X ""
 .SH NAME

-\fBinstr\fR, \fBinnstr\fR, \fBwinstr\fR, \fBwinnstr\fR,
-\fBmvinstr\fR, \fBmvinnstr\fR, \fBmvwinstr\fR, \fBmvwinnstr\fR - get a string
-of characters from a \fBcurses\fR window
+\fBinstr\fR,
+\fBinnstr\fR,
+\fBwinstr\fR,
+\fBwinnstr\fR,
+\fBmvinstr\fR,
+\fBmvinnstr\fR,
+\fBmvwinstr\fR,
+\fBmvwinnstr\fR - get a string of characters from a \fBcurses\fR window

 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
 


@@ -60,13 +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.
 .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
 .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
 SVr4 does not
 document whether a length limit includes or excludes the trailing NUL.
 .PP