Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!vu0112
From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: varargs and scanf
Keywords: vfprintf, ANSI C,...
Message-ID: <1927@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 89 00:42:20 GMT
References: <1494@zen.UUCP> <9553@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY
Lines: 19

In article <9553@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>No, v*scanf() are not in the proposed ANSI C Standard.  In fact there
>was considerable sentiment for removing the normal *scanf() functions.
>
>I'm not sure how useful v*scanf() would be; I've never felt the need
>for it, though.

In Turbo C v2.0, *scanf() appears to fail for a few arguments (>3?), but
the v*scanf() functions provided work much better for me. 

Food for mailer
Food for mailer
Food for mailer

-- 
O---------------------------------------------------------------------->
| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .