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-.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
.\" *
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
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-.\" $Id: curs_inchstr.3x,v 1.8 2000/07/01 20:16:18 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_inchstr.3x,v 1.10 2005/05/15 16:54:53 tom Exp $
.TH curs_inchstr 3X ""
+.na
+.hy 0
.SH NAME
\fBinchstr\fR,
\fBinchnstr\fR,
\fBmvinchnstr\fR,
\fBmvwinchstr\fR,
\fBmvwinchnstr\fR - get a string of characters (and attributes) from a \fBcurses\fR window
+.ad
+.hy
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fB#include <curses.h>\fR
All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and an integer value
other than \fBERR\fR upon successful completion (the number of characters
retrieved, exclusive of the trailing 0).
+.PP
+No error conditions are defined.
+If the \fIchstr\fP parameter is null,
+no data is returned,
+and the return value is zero.
.SH NOTES
Note that all routines except \fBwinchnstr\fR may be macros. SVr4 does not
document whether the result string is 0-terminated; it does not document