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<H1 class="no-header">curs_instr 3x</H1>
These routines return a string of characters in <EM>str</EM>, extracted starting
at the current cursor position in the named window. Attributes are
stripped from the characters. The four functions with <EM>n</EM> as the last
- argument return a leading substring at most <EM>n</EM> characters long (exclu-
- sive of the trailing NUL).
+ argument return a leading substring at most <EM>n</EM> characters long
+ (exclusive of the trailing NUL).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
- All of the functions return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure, or the number of charac-
- ters actually read into the string.
+ All of the functions return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure, or the number of
+ characters actually read into the string.
X/Open Curses defines no error conditions. In this implementation: