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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>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>printw</STRONG>, <STRONG>wprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>, <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG>
+ <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
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.
+
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<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 is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN,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
+ 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 is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN,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><stdarg.h></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><varargs.h></STRONG>, which
- cannot be used in the same file as <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG>. This
- implementation uses <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG> for both, because that
- header is included in <STRONG><curses.h</STRONG>>.
+ sion 2 states that <STRONG>vw_printw</STRONG> is preferred to <STRONG>vwprintw</STRONG>
+ since the latter requires including <STRONG><varargs.h></STRONG>, which
+ cannot be used in the same file as <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG>. This im-
+ plementation uses <STRONG><stdarg.h></STRONG> for both, because that header
+ is included in <STRONG><curses.h</STRONG>>.
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- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
+
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