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 <PRE>
-<!-- Manpage converted by man2html 3.0.1 -->
-<STRONG><A HREF="curs_instr.3x.html">curs_instr(3x)</A></STRONG>                                     <STRONG><A HREF="curs_instr.3x.html">curs_instr(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="curs_instr.3x.html">curs_instr(3x)</A></STRONG>                                                  <STRONG><A HREF="curs_instr.3x.html">curs_instr(3x)</A></STRONG>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
-       <STRONG>instr</STRONG>,  <STRONG>innstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwin-</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>str</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinnstr</STRONG> - get a string of characters from a  <STRONG>curses</STRONG>
-       window
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
+       <STRONG>instr</STRONG>,  <STRONG>innstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>winnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvinnstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinstr</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwinnstr</STRONG>
+       - get a string of characters from a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
 
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>instr(char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
 
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>instr(char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
@@ -63,57 +60,62 @@
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinnstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvinnstr(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>int</STRONG>  <STRONG>mvwinnstr(WINDOW</STRONG>  <STRONG>*win,</STRONG>  <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
+       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwinnstr(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*str,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>n);</STRONG>
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
-       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  charac-
-       ters.   The  four  functions  with  <EM>n</EM> as the last argument
-       return a leading  substring  at  most  <EM>n</EM>  characters  long
-       (exclusive of the trailing NUL).
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+       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).
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
-       All  of the functions return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure, or the num-
-       ber of characters actually read into the string.
+</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.
 
 
+       X/Open Curses defines no error conditions.  In this implementation:
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   If the <EM>win</EM> parameter is null, an error is returned,
+
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   If the <EM>chstr</EM> parameter is null, an error is returned,
+
+       Functions  with  a  "mv"  prefix  first perform a cursor movement using
+       <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if
+       the window pointer is null.
+
+
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
        Note that all routines except <STRONG>winnstr</STRONG> may be macros.
 
 
        Note that all routines except <STRONG>winnstr</STRONG> may be macros.
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
-       The XSI Curses error  conditions  <STRONG>EILSEQ</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>EILOVERFLOW</STRONG>
-       associated  with  extended-level  conformance  are not yet
-       detected (this implementation does not  yet  support  XPG4
-       multibyte  characters).   SVr4 does not document whether a
-       length limit includes or excludes the trailing NUL.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+       SVr4  does not document whether a length limit includes or excludes the
+       trailing NUL.
 
 
-       The ncurses library extends the XSI description by  allow-
-       ing  a  negative value for <EM>n</EM>.  In this case, the functions
-       return the string ending at the right margin.
+       The ncurses library extends the XSI description by allowing a  negative
+       value  for  <EM>n</EM>.  In this case, the functions return the string ending at
+       the right margin.
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
        <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
 
 
 
        <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
 
 
 
-
-                                                   <STRONG><A HREF="curs_instr.3x.html">curs_instr(3x)</A></STRONG>
+                                                                <STRONG><A HREF="curs_instr.3x.html">curs_instr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
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