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-<STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>                                         <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
+<STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>                                                <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
-       <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>
-       - print formatted output in <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
+       <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> - print
+       formatted output in <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows
 
 
 
 
-</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>printw(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvprintw(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
 
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>printw(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
        <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvprintw(int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG>  <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>int</STRONG>  <STRONG>vwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG>  <STRONG>*win,</STRONG>  <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>var-</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vw_printw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG>  <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>  <STRONG>var-</STRONG>
-       <STRONG>glist);</STRONG>
+       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>mvwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>y,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>x,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
+       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vw_printw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>varglist);</STRONG>
 
 
+       /* obsolete */
+       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>vwprintw(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*fmt,</STRONG> <STRONG>va_list</STRONG> <STRONG>varglist);</STRONG>
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
-       The  <STRONG>printw</STRONG>,  <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG> routines are
-       analogous to  <STRONG>printf</STRONG>  [see  <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3.html">printf(3)</A></STRONG>].   In  effect,  the
-       string that would be output by <STRONG>printf</STRONG> is output instead as
-       though <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> were used on the given window.
 
 
-       The <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>wv_printw</STRONG>  routines  are  analogous  to
-       <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG>  [see  <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3.html">printf(3)</A></STRONG>]  and  perform  a <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> using a
-       variable argument list.  The third argument is a  <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>,
-       a   pointer   to  a  list  of  arguments,  as  defined  in
-       <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+       The <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG> and <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG> routines are  analogous  to
+       <STRONG>printf</STRONG>  [see <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>].  In effect, the string that would be output by
+       <STRONG>printf</STRONG> is output instead as though <STRONG>waddstr</STRONG> were used on the given  win-
+       dow.
 
 
+       The  <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>wv_printw</STRONG>  routines  are  analogous to <STRONG>vprintf</STRONG> [see
+       <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>] and perform a <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG> using a variable argument  list.   The
+       third  argument  is a <STRONG>va_list</STRONG>, a pointer to a list of arguments, as de-
+       fined in <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
-       Routines that return an integer return  <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>  upon  failure
-       and  <STRONG>OK</STRONG>  (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than
-       <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.
 
 
-       X/Open defines no error conditions.  In  this  implementa-
-       tion,  an  error  may  be  returned  if it cannot allocate
-       enough memory for the buffer used to format  the  results.
-       It will return an error if the window pointer is null.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
+       Routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure  and  <STRONG>OK</STRONG>  (SVr4
+       only  specifies "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful com-
+       pletion.
 
 
-       Functions  with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
-       ment using <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the  position  is
-       outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
+       X/Open defines no error conditions.  In this implementation,  an  error
+       may be returned if it cannot allocate enough memory for the buffer used
+       to format the results.  It will return an error if the  window  pointer
+       is null.
 
 
+       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>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
-       The  XSI  Curses  standard,  Issue 4 describes these func-
-       tions.  The function <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> is marked TO  BE  WITHDRAWN,
-       and  is  to  be replaced by a function <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> using the
-       <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> interface.  The Single Unix Specification, Ver-
-       sion  2  states  that  <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>  is preferred to <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>
-       since the latter  requires  including  <STRONG>&lt;varargs.h&gt;</STRONG>,  which
-       cannot  be  used in the same file as <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.  This im-
-       plementation uses <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> for both, because that header
-       is included in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h</STRONG>&gt;.
 
 
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
+       In  this implementation, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> and <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> are equivalent, to sup-
+       port legacy applications.  However, the latter (<STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>) is obsolete:
 
 
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
-       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="printf.3.html">printf(3)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>vprintf(3)</STRONG>
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 described  these  functions.   The
+           function  <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced
+           by a function <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> using the <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> interface.
+
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>   is
+           preferred   to   <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>   since  the  latter  requires  including
+           <STRONG>&lt;varargs.h&gt;</STRONG>, which cannot be used in the same file  as  <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG>.
+           This  implementation  uses <STRONG>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</STRONG> for both, because that header
+           is included in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h</STRONG>&gt;.
+
+       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   X/Open Curses, Issue 5 (December 2007) marked <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG> (along  with
+           <STRONG>vwscanw</STRONG> and the termcap interface) as withdrawn.
+
+
+</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>.
 
 
 
 
 
 
-                                                        <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
+                                                               <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(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-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
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