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From: jimmc@sci.UUCP (Jim McBeath)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: wanted: vsprintf for non-4.2bsd
Message-ID: <126@sci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 11:04:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 11:04:29 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 10:01:58 EST
Organization: Silicon Compilers Inc. Los Gatos, CA
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a genealogy program which contained
a module called vsprintf.  This function works like sprintf, but
instead of being passed a list of arguments in the function call,
it is passed a pointer to the arguments.  This allows a person to
write his own functions which take a list of arguments like printf.

Unfortunately, the implementation of printf is very system-dependent, so
that all the people who were NOT running 4.2bsd were getting gobs of error
messages and not being able to run the program.  I am getting ready to
re-post a substantially changed version of geneal, but I am still waiting
for someone to send me vsprintfs that work on other systems.  So, does
anyone already have a vsprintf running under other systems (like sys V)
that I can include in my distribution?  If so, I would be pleased to
receive them.

Jim McBeath     ...{decwrl|qubix|turtlevax}!sci!jimmc
Silicon Compilers Incorporated, San Jose, CA  (408)371-2900