ncurses 5.6 - patch 20070612

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_addstr.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_addstr.3x b/man/curs_addstr.3x
index 0ffacc6fa9b7d6a53388d0de128629fe09595eaf..488b9dd8e75279b11f2c80949882db271147f123 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_addstr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_addstr.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2003,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_addstr.3x,v 1.11 2003/12/27 18:51:15 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_addstr.3x,v 1.13 2005/05/15 16:17:14 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_addstr 3X ""
+.na
+.hy 0
 .SH NAME
 \fBaddstr\fR,
 \fBaddnstr\fR,
@@ -37,6 +39,8 @@
 \fBmvaddnstr\fR,
 \fBmvwaddstr\fR,
 \fBmvwaddnstr\fR - add a string of characters to a \fBcurses\fR window and advance cursor
+.ad
+.hy
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
@@ -70,6 +74,12 @@ or until a terminating null is reached.
 All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and \fBOK\fR on success
 (the SVr4 manuals specify only "an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon
 successful completion.
+.PP
+X/Open does not define any error conditions.
+This implementation returns an error
+if the window pointer is null or
+if the string pointer is null or
+if the corresponding calls to \fBwaddch\fP return an error.
 .SH NOTES
 Note that all of these routines except \fBwaddstr\fR and \fBwaddnstr\fR may be
 macros.