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Miscellaneous Library Functions                   curs_printw(3X)



NAME
     printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw, vw_printw -
     print formatted output in curses windows

SYNOPSIS
     #include 

     int printw(const char *fmt, ...);
     int wprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, ...);
     int mvprintw(int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);
     int mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x,  const  char  *fmt,
     ...);
     int vwprintw(WINDOW *win,  const  char  *fmt,  va_list  var-
     glist);
     int vw_printw(WINDOW *win, const  char  *fmt,  va_list  var-
     glist);

DESCRIPTION
     The printw, wprintw, mvprintw  and  mvwprintw  routines  are
     analogous  to printf [see printf(3)].  In effect, the string
     that would be output by printf is output instead  as  though
     waddstr were used on the given window.

     The vwprintw and wv_printw routines are analogous to vprintf
     [see printf(3)] and perform a wprintw using a variable argu-
     ment list.  The third argument is a va_list, a pointer to  a
     list of arguments, as defined in .

RETURN VALUE
     Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure  and
     OK  (SVr4  only specifies "an integer value other than ERR")
     upon successful completion.

     X/Open defines no error conditions.  In this implementation,
     an error may be returned if it cannot allocate enough memory
     for the buffer used to format the results.  It  will  return
     an error if the window pointer is null.

PORTABILITY
     The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these  functions.
     The  function  vwprintw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to
     be replaced by a function vw_printw using the  in-
     terface.   The  Single  Unix Specification, Version 2 states
     that vw_printw  is preferred to vwprintw  since  the  latter
     requires  including , which cannot be used in the
     same  file  as   .    This   implementation   uses
       for  both,  because  that  header is included in
     .

SEE ALSO
     curses(3X), printf(3), vprintf(3)




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