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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How to predict size of outcome of vsprintf?
Message-ID: <1989Mar21.183741.1089@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 18:37:41 GMT

In article <9979@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>My own soon-to-be-released stdio replacement contains
>
>	char *smprintf(char *fmt, ...)

I would urge changing the name, perhaps to msprintf, to avoid a name that
looks very similar to snprintf at first glance.
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