ncurses 6.4 - patch 20240420

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

diff --git a/man/curs_print.3x b/man/curs_print.3x
index 72c15a80afd44b35e67eba628683acf7bb81f23a..3694beffcca163ddd5fe783930f5e9261c7e05c6 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_print.3x
+++ b/man/curs_print.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2023,2024 Thomas E. Dickey                                *
 .\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.32 2023/10/07 21:19:07 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_print 3X 2023-10-07 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.38 2024/03/16 15:35:01 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_print 3X 2024-03-16 "ncurses @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@" "Library calls"
 .SH NAME
 \fB\%mcprint\fP \-
 write binary data to printer using \fIterminfo\fR capabilities
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ write binary data to printer using \fIterminfo\fR capabilities
 This function uses the \fBmc5p\fP or \fBmc4\fP and \fBmc5\fP capabilities,
 if they are present, to ship given data to a printer attached to the terminal.
 .PP
-Note that the \fB\%mcprint\fP code has no way to do flow control with the printer
+Note that the \fB\%mcprint\fP code has no way
+to do flow control with the printer
 or to know how much buffering it has.
 Your application is responsible for
 keeping the rate of writes to the printer below its continuous throughput rate
@@ -65,13 +66,24 @@ Couldn't allocate sufficient memory to buffer the printer write.
 .PP
 When \fB\%mcprint\fP succeeds, it returns the number of characters actually
 sent to the printer.
+.SH EXTENSIONS
+\fB\%mcprint\fP was designed for
+\fB\%ncurses\fP(3X),
+and was not found in SVr4
+.IR curses ,
+4.4BSD
+.IR curses ,
+or any other previous curses implementation.
 .SH PORTABILITY
-The \fB\%mcprint\fP call was designed for \fIncurses\fP, and is not found
-in SVr4 \fIcurses\fP, 4.4BSD \fIcurses\fP, or any other previous version of \fIcurses\fP.
-It is recommended that any code depending on \fIncurses\fP extensions
-be conditioned using \fB\%NCURSES_VERSION\fP.
+Applications employing this
+.I \%ncurses
+extension should condition its use on the visibility of the
+.B \%NCURSES_VERSION
+preprocessor macro.
 .SH BUGS
-Padding in the \fBmc5p\fP, \fBmc4\fP and \fBmc5\fP capabilities will not be
-interpreted.
+Padding in the
+\fBmc5p\fP,
+\fBmc4\fP, and
+\fBmc5\fP capabilities is not interpreted.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fB\%curses\fP(3X)