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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
The function <STRONG>new_item</STRONG> allocates a new item and initializes
- it from the <STRONG>name</STRONG> and <STRONG>description</STRONG> pointers. Please notice
- that the item stores only the pointers to the name and
+ it from the <STRONG>name</STRONG> and <STRONG>description</STRONG> pointers. Please notice
+ that the item stores only the pointers to the name and
description. Those pointers must be valid during the life-
time of the item. So you should be very careful with names
or descriptions allocated on the stack of some routines.
The function <STRONG>free_item</STRONG> de-allocates an item. Please notice
- that it is the responsibility of the application to
- release the memory for the name or the description of the
+ that it is the responsibility of the application to
+ release the memory for the name or the description of the
item.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
- The function <STRONG>new_item</STRONG> returns <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error. It sets
+ The function <STRONG>new_item</STRONG> returns <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error. It sets
errno according to the function's failure:
<STRONG>E_BAD_ARGUMENT</STRONG>
- Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argu-
+ Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argu-
ment.
<STRONG>E_SYSTEM_ERROR</STRONG>
<STRONG>E_OK</STRONG> The routine succeeded.
<STRONG>E_BAD_ARGUMENT</STRONG>
- Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argu-
+ Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argu-
ment.
<STRONG>E_CONNECTED</STRONG>
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<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
- These routines emulate the System V menu library. They
+ These routines emulate the System V menu library. They
were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions.
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<H2>AUTHORS</H2><PRE>
- Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new
+ Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new
curses by Eric S. Raymond.
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