ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210213

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

diff --git a/man/curs_print.3x b/man/curs_print.3x
index 039f5b73f3216505f39be3984ae2c5edc4a4cca5..8bde817d92f01723103abfe8d1057295cdaba7e4 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_print.3x
+++ b/man/curs_print.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                     *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 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            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *


@@ -26,29 +27,32 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"

-.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.11 2017/01/07 17:33:15 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.16 2020/10/24 09:25:14 tom Exp $

 .TH curs_print 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBmcprint\fR \- ship binary data to printer
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
 .sp
 .TH curs_print 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBmcprint\fR \- ship binary data to printer
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
 .sp

-\fBint mcprint(char *data, int len);\fR
+\fBint mcprint(char *\fP\fIdata\fP\fB, int \fP\fIlen\fP\fB);\fR

 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This function uses the \fBmc5p\fR or \fBmc4\fR and \fBmc5\fR capabilities,
 if they are present, to ship given data to a printer attached to the terminal.
 .PP
 Note that the \fBmcprint\fR code has no way to do flow control with the printer
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This function uses the \fBmc5p\fR or \fBmc4\fR and \fBmc5\fR capabilities,
 if they are present, to ship given data to a printer attached to the terminal.
 .PP
 Note that the \fBmcprint\fR code has no way to do flow control with the printer

-or to know how much buffering it has.  Your application is responsible for
+or to know how much buffering it has.
+Your application is responsible for

 keeping the rate of writes to the printer below its continuous throughput rate
 keeping the rate of writes to the printer below its continuous throughput rate

-(typically about half of its nominal cps rating).  Dot-matrix printers and
+(typically about half of its nominal cps rating).
+Dot-matrix printers and

 6-page-per-minute lasers can typically handle 80cps, so a good conservative
 rule of thumb is to sleep for a second after shipping each 80-character line.
 .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The \fBmcprint\fR function returns \fBERR\fR if the write operation aborted
 6-page-per-minute lasers can typically handle 80cps, so a good conservative
 rule of thumb is to sleep for a second after shipping each 80-character line.
 .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The \fBmcprint\fR function returns \fBERR\fR if the write operation aborted

-for some reason.  In this case, errno will contain either an error associated
-with \fBwrite(2)\fR or one of the following:
+for some reason.
+In this case, \fBerrno\fP will contain either an error associated
+with \fBwrite\fP(2) or one of the following:

 .TP 5
 ENODEV
 Capabilities for printer redirection do not exist.
 .TP 5
 ENODEV
 Capabilities for printer redirection do not exist.