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Subject: Re: need info: %r in printf - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 23:03:39 EDT
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fortune!olson    Oct 11 19:57:00 1983


John, you are out of luck on this one.  %r was a beautiful kludge which
was undocumented, and went away with post V7 releases.  What it did was allow
you to pass a char ** to printf.  printf then took the rest of the format and
arguments from that pointer.  This was wonderful for doing a common debug/error
function.  It went away .....

By the way, anything following the %r in the format was totally ignored