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<PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
the window pointer is null.
-</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
- While <STRONG>printw</STRONG> was implemented in 4BSD, it was unused until 4.2BSD (which
- used it in games). That early version of curses was before the ANSI C
- standard. It did not use <varargs.h>, though that was available. In
- 1991 (a couple of years after SVr4 was generally available, and after
- the C standard was published), other developers updated the library,
- using <stdarg.h> internally in 4.4BSD curses. Even with this
- improvement, BSD curses did not use function prototypes (or even
- declare functions) in the <curses.h> header until 1992.
-
- SVr2 documented <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> tersely as "printf on <EM>stdscr</EM>" and
- tersely as "printf on <EM>win</EM>", respectively.
-
- SVr3 added <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, with a three-line summary saying
- that they were analogous to <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>, explaining that the string which
- would be output from <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG> would instead be output using <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> on
- the given window. SVr3 also added <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, saying that the third
- parameter is a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>, defined in <varargs.h>, and referring the
- reader to the manual pages for <EM>varargs</EM> and <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> for detailed
- descriptions.
-
- SVr4 added no new variations of <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, but provided for using
- <varargs.h> or <stdarg.h> to define the <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> type.
-
- X/Open Curses added <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> to replace <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, stating that its
- <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> definition requires <stdarg.h>.
-
-
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
In this implementation, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> and <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> are equivalent, to
support legacy applications. However, the latter (<STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>) is
<STRONG>vwscanw</STRONG> and the termcap interface) as withdrawn.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
+ While <STRONG>printw</STRONG> was implemented in 4BSD, it was unused until 4.2BSD (which
+ used it in games). That early version of curses was before the ANSI C
+ standard. It did not use <varargs.h>, though that was available. In
+ 1991 (a couple of years after SVr4 was generally available, and after
+ the C standard was published), other developers updated the library,
+ using <stdarg.h> internally in 4.4BSD curses. Even with this
+ improvement, BSD curses did not use function prototypes (or even
+ declare functions) in the <curses.h> header until 1992.
+
+ SVr2 documented <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> tersely as "printf on <EM>stdscr</EM>" and
+ tersely as "printf on <EM>win</EM>", respectively.
+
+ SVr3 added <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, with a three-line summary saying
+ that they were analogous to <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>, explaining that the string which
+ would be output from <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG> would instead be output using <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> on
+ the given window. SVr3 also added <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, saying that the third
+ parameter is a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>, defined in <varargs.h>, and referring the
+ reader to the manual pages for <EM>varargs</EM> and <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> for detailed
+ descriptions.
+
+ SVr4 added no new variations of <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, but provided for using
+ <varargs.h> or <stdarg.h> to define the <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> type.
+
+ X/Open Curses added <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> to replace <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, stating that its
+ <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> definition requires <stdarg.h>.
+
+
</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="curs_addstr.3x.html">curs_addstr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_scanw.3x.html">curs_scanw(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_termcap.3x.html">curs_termcap(3x)</A></STRONG>,
<STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>, <STRONG>vprintf(3)</STRONG>
-ncurses 6.4 2023-1
0-07 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-1
1-25 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
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<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
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