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From: jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: vprintf/vfprintf/vsprintf
Summary: Our system doesn't have them.  How to simulate?
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Date: 30 Jan 91 20:52:01 GMT
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Greetings.. I am trying to put together a package on our Alliant (apE 2.0),
and have been unsucessful in doing so, as of the moment.  One of the
stumbling blocks is that a library in apE uses vfprintf and vsprintf, which
are versions of fprintf and sprintf designed to work with the varargs
macros.  I have looked at the source for sprintf and fprintf on our system,
and they use a common routine called doprnt(), which accepts arguments in
terms of an argument list, such as would be constructed by the varargs
macros.  It seems what I can see that I should be able to simply substitute
sprintf and fprintf for the varargs-specialized versions, but this does not
seem to work.

Any hints would be gratefully accepted.


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