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46 <H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
47        <STRONG>inch</STRONG>,  <STRONG>winch</STRONG>,  <STRONG>mvinch</STRONG>,  <STRONG>mvwinch</STRONG>  -  get  a  character  and
48        attributes from a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
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52 <H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
53        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
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55        <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>inch(void);</STRONG>
56        <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>winch(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win);</STRONG>
57        <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinch(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x);</STRONG>
58        <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinch(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x);</STRONG>
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62 <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
63        These routines return the character, of  type  <STRONG>chtype</STRONG>,  at
64        the   current  position  in  the  named  window.   If  any
65        attributes are set for that  position,  their  values  are
66        OR'ed  into  the  value  returned.   Constants  defined in
67        <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG> can be used with the <STRONG>&amp;</STRONG> (logical  AND)  operator
68        to extract the character or attributes alone.
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71    <STRONG>Attributes</STRONG>
72        The  following  bit-masks  may  be  AND-ed with characters
73        returned by <STRONG>winch</STRONG>.
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75        <STRONG>A_CHARTEXT</STRONG>     Bit-mask to extract character
76        <STRONG>A_ATTRIBUTES</STRONG>   Bit-mask to extract attributes
77        <STRONG>A_COLOR</STRONG>        Bit-mask to extract color-pair field information
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81 <H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
82        Note that all of these routines may be macros.
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86 <H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
87        These functions are described in the XSI Curses  standard,
88        Issue 4.
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92 <H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
93        <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
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