Re: Standards question wrt winnstr & friends

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, William McBrine wrote:

> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcurses/winnstr.html
>
> Upon successful completion, innstr(), mvinnstr(), mvwinnstr() and
> winnstr() return the number of characters actually read into the string.

ok (I have some ongoing distractions-sorry-am not paying enough 
attention).

> Otherwise, all these functions return ERR.
>
> So ncurses' behavior is correct. It's interesting that the PDCurses comments

good (for me, anyway)

> list OK/ERR as the X/Open behavior; it's possible that was based on an 
> earlier version of the standard. (Notice the compatibility charts all refer 
> to "X/Open '88".) But I've been unable to find earlier versions online, so I 
> don't know. (Just out of curiosity, does anyone out there have them? Tom?)

no - I'd never heard of X/Open 88 (though google presents some interesting
information).

> I'll correct PDCurses. Thanks.
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