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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: printf vs <stdio.h>
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Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 18:25:38 EDT
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> printf predates stdio... (previously, we didn't need sprintf and fprintf;
> printf did it all!)...

Au contraire, we needed sprintf and fprintf badly, we just didn't *have* them!
The equivalent of fprintf got invented independently in many places, and the
main reason this wasn't true for sprintf was that it was harder.
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