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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: vt100 termcap (problem/question)
Message-ID: <12238@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Feb 90 19:55:41 GMT
References: <1177@psc90.UUCP-> <500@bilver.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <500@bilver.UUCP> bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:
>In the FM neither se nor so are permitted to have padding characters.

Actually, that's an oversight that should be fixed in the updated
termcap manual that I'm working on.  All output string capabilities
are allowed to have padding.  The real problem is that only tputs()
and tgoto() should be used to output string capabilities, not printf().