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diff --git a/man/curs_get_wstr.3x b/man/curs_get_wstr.3x
index f8fa51d4..2eaca12c 100644
--- a/man/curs_get_wstr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_get_wstr.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                        *
+.\" Copyright (c) 2002-2003,2005 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            *
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_get_wstr.3x,v 1.2 2002/05/18 21:48:15 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_get_wstr.3x,v 1.5 2005/05/15 16:17:44 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_get_wstr 3X ""
+.na
+.hy 0
 .SH NAME
 \fBget_wstr\fR,
 \fBgetn_wstr\fR,
@@ -37,6 +39,8 @@
 \fBmvgetn_wstr\fR,
 \fBmvwget_wstr\fR,
 \fBmvwgetn_wstr\fR \- get an array of wide characters from a curses terminal keyboard
+.ad
+.hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
@@ -143,6 +147,13 @@ All of these routines except \fBwgetn_wstr\fR may be macros.
 .SH RETURN VALUES
 All of these functions return \fBOK\fR upon successful completion.
 Otherwise, they return \fBERR\fR.
+.PP
+Functions using a window parameter return an error if it is null.
+.RS
+.TP 5
+\fBwgetn_wstr\fP
+returns an error if the associated call to \fBwget_wch\fP failed.
+.RE
 .SH PORTABILITY
 These functions are described in The Single Unix Specification, Version 2.
 No error conditions are defined.
@@ -151,6 +162,9 @@ or if the lower-level \fBwget_wch\fR call returns an ERR.
 In the latter case,
 an ERR return without other data is treated as an end-of-file condition,
 and the returned array contains a \fBWEOF\fR followed by a null \fBwchar_t\fR.
+.PP
+X/Open curses documents these functions to pass an array of \fBwchar_t\fR,
+but all of the vendors implement this using \fBwint_t\fR.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 Functions:
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),