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</PRE><H3><a name="h3-erasechar_-erasewchar">erasechar, erasewchar</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>erasechar</STRONG> routine returns the user's current erase character.
- The <STRONG>erasewchar</STRONG> routine stores the current erase character in the loca-
- tion referenced by <EM>ch</EM>. If no erase character has been defined, the
+ The <STRONG>erasewchar</STRONG> routine stores the current erase character in the
+ location referenced by <EM>ch</EM>. If no erase character has been defined, the
routine fails and the location referenced by <EM>ch</EM> is not changed.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-termattrs_-term_attrs">termattrs, term_attrs</a></H3><PRE>
- If a given terminal does not support a video attribute that an applica-
- tion program is trying to use, <STRONG>curses</STRONG> may substitute a different video
- attribute for it. The <STRONG>termattrs</STRONG> and <STRONG>term_attrs</STRONG> functions return a log-
- ical <STRONG>OR</STRONG> of all video attributes supported by the terminal using <EM>A</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> and
- <EM>WA</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> constants respectively. This information is useful when a <STRONG>curses</STRONG>
- program needs complete control over the appearance of the screen.
+ If a given terminal does not support a video attribute that an
+ application program is trying to use, <STRONG>curses</STRONG> may substitute a different
+ video attribute for it. The <STRONG>termattrs</STRONG> and <STRONG>term_attrs</STRONG> functions return
+ a logical <STRONG>OR</STRONG> of all video attributes supported by the terminal using <EM>A</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG>
+ and <EM>WA</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG> constants respectively. This information is useful when a
+ <STRONG>curses</STRONG> program needs complete control over the appearance of the
+ screen.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-termname">termname</a></H3><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>longname</STRONG> and <STRONG>termname</STRONG> return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.
- 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.
+ 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.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. It changes
- the return type of <STRONG>termattrs</STRONG> to the new type <STRONG>attr_t</STRONG>. Most versions of
+ the return type of <STRONG>termattrs</STRONG> to the new type <STRONG>attr_t</STRONG>. Most versions of
curses truncate the result returned by <STRONG>termname</STRONG> to 14 characters.
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