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From: PEPRBV%CFAAMP.BITNET@husc6.harvard.EDU (Bob Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: question about format strings
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Date: 22 Dec 87 05:34:11 GMT
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Reading the description of the format string for printf, it seemed
to me that "%10 " might be the equivalent of 10X in Fortran, that
is, insert 10 spaces.  I tested this on my MS-DOS C and it worked, but
on my OS-9/68K C it did not.  Which of these is correct, or is this a
detail which can legally vary?  (Both compilers claim to implement
K&R C, not ANSI C.)