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-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 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 *
.\" authorization. *
.\"***************************************************************************
.\"
-.\" $Id: form_field_info.3x,v 1.5 1998/11/29 01:06:24 Rick.Ohnemus Exp $
+.\" $Id: form_field_info.3x,v 1.6 2000/04/15 22:21:31 tom Exp $
.TH form_field_info 3X ""
.SH NAME
\fBform_field_info\fR - retrieve field characteristics
.SH PORTABILITY
These routines emulate the System V forms library. They were not supported on
Version 7 or BSD versions.
+.PP
+A null (zero pointer) is accepted for any of the return values,
+to ignore that value.
+Not all implementations allow this, e.g., Solaris 2.7 does not.
.SH AUTHORS
Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric
S. Raymond.