ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230923

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

diff --git a/man/curs_print.3x b/man/curs_print.3x
index 3325958eb48619bbfd8e3532a4f3cc1e30f37bec..a3a5b48bfa6fd832ccfb10ce05a0fd20b2280e8f 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_print.3x
+++ b/man/curs_print.3x
@@ -27,20 +27,20 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.25 2023/09/16 23:37:03 tom Exp $
-.TH curs_print 3X 2023-09-16 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
+.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.31 2023/09/23 23:04:49 tom Exp $
+.TH curs_print 3X 2023-09-23 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls"
 .SH NAME
 \fB\%mcprint\fP \-
 write binary data to printer using \fIterminfo\fR capabilities
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fP
-.sp
+.PP
 \fBint mcprint(char *\fIdata\fB, int \fIlen\fB);\fR
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 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 \fBmcprint\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
@@ -50,24 +50,26 @@ Dot-matrix printers and
 rule of thumb is to sleep for a second after shipping each 80-character line.
 .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
-The \fBmcprint\fP function returns \fBERR\fP if the write operation aborted
+The \fB\%mcprint\fP function returns \fBERR\fP if the write operation aborted
 for some reason.
-In this case, \fBerrno\fP will contain either an error associated
+In this case, \fB\%errno\fP will contain either an error associated
 with \fBwrite\fP(2) or one of the following:
 .TP 5
-ENODEV
+\fBENODEV\fP
 Capabilities for printer redirection do not exist.
 .TP 5
-ENOMEM
+\fBENOMEM\fP
 Couldn't allocate sufficient memory to buffer the printer write.
 .PP
-When \fBmcprint\fP succeeds, it returns the number of characters actually
+When \fB\%mcprint\fP succeeds, it returns the number of characters actually
 sent to the printer.
 .SH PORTABILITY
-The \fBmcprint\fP call was designed for \fBncurses\fP(3X), and is not found
-in SVr4 curses, 4.4BSD curses, or any other previous version of curses.
+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.
 .SH BUGS
 Padding in the \fBmc5p\fP, \fBmc4\fP and \fBmc5\fP capabilities will not be
 interpreted.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBcurses\fP(3X)
+\fB\%curses\fP(3X)