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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/ncurses/man/curs_getstr.3x')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_getstr.3x b/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_getstr.3x index 42c22931877c..1a32a0be1aeb 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_getstr.3x +++ b/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_getstr.3x @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000,2001 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 * @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: curs_getstr.3x,v 1.9 2000/07/01 17:39:31 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: curs_getstr.3x,v 1.11 2002/04/13 22:14:30 tom Exp $ .TH curs_getstr 3X "" .SH NAME \fBgetstr\fR, @@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ completion. .SH NOTES Note that \fBgetstr\fR, \fBmvgetstr\fR, and \fBmvwgetstr\fR may be macros. .SH PORTABILITY -These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. They read -single-byte characters only. The standard specifies that they return \fBERR\fR -on failure, but the single error condition \fBEOVERFLOW\fR associated with -extended-level conformance is not yet returned (the XSI curses support for -multi-byte characters is not yet present). +These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. +They read single-byte characters only. +The standard does not define any error conditions. +This implementation returns ERR if the window pointer is null, +or if the lower-level \fBwgetch\fR call returns an ERR. SVr3 and early SVr4 curses implementations did not reject function keys; the SVr4.0 documentation claimed that "special keys" (such as function |