Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery
From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl compilation problems on a fortune 32:16
Message-ID: <7935@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 23:34:21 GMT
References: <512@sbsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <512@sbsvax.UUCP> by greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim):
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| >Meanwhile, I am interested in a public domain printf & friends.
| In the implementations I saw, printf was just an interface to _doprnt,
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(1) There is a printf() replacement in the UNaXcess 1.0.2 sources, in the
    function "writef()" in io.c.  I've mailed the code out to the original
    requestor.

(2) Plexus System III (and, presumably, some other systems) did not use
    _doprnt; the function doesn't exist.  They use _print with the FILE
    structure stored in "extern FILE _pfile" (no, that's not a typo; it's an
    actual structure, not a pointer).  I don't remember the calling
    sequence, but I can look it up.

(3) I think v*printf() is now common enough that it should be used instead.
    The interface is much cleaner than _doprnt.
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