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.TH CURS_PRINTW 3CURSES "Dec 31, 1996"
.SH NAME
curs_printw, printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw \- print formatted
output in curses windows
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR ... ] \fIfile\fR ... \fB-lcurses\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR ... ]
#include <curses.h>

\fBint\fR \fBprintw\fR(\fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBwprintw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvprintw\fR(\fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvwprintw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
#include <varargs.h>

\fBint\fR \fBvwprintw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIvarglist\fR */ ... );
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The \fBprintw()\fR, \fBwprintw()\fR, \fBmvprintw()\fR, and \fBmvwprintw()\fR
routines are analogous to \fBprintf()\fR (see \fBprintf\fR(3C) ). In effect,
the string that would be output by \fBprintf()\fR is output instead as though
\fBwaddstr()\fR were used on the given window.
.sp
.LP
The \fBvwprintw()\fR routine is analogous to \fBvprintf()\fR (see
\fBvprintf\fR(3C)) and performs a \fBwprintw()\fR using a variable argument
list. The third argument is a \fBva_list\fR, a pointer to a list of arguments,
as defined in \fB<varargs.h>\fR\&.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and an integer value
other than \fBERR\fR upon successful completion.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
box;
c | c
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
MT-Level	Unsafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBcurses\fR(3CURSES), \fBprintf\fR(3C), \fBvprintf\fR(3C), \fBattributes\fR(5)
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
The header <\fBcurses.h\fR> automatically includes the headers  <\fBstdio.h\fR>
and <\fBunctrl.h\fR>.