tfra@ur-tut.UUCP (Thomas Fravenhofer) (12/19/85)
[Virgin line sacrified to the God of Line Eating] I got QUITE a bit of mail on my request for what _doprnt, so I thought I'd summarize the results rather than send individual replies. Here goes: _doprnt is a routine which does not exist on all unix systems. It basically does all the work of printf, fprintf, and sprintf in formatting the text. A companion routine of _doprnt is _strout, which appears to be an output routine (sending output to either standard output, a specific file, or a character string). Thanks to all who answered my question. For those who wonder what my problem was, it turned out not to be bad parameters sent to anything, but rather a poor linker. It seems one of the modules I was compiling contained its own version of _strout, but the linker was still pulling in the version of _strout from libc. When I later tried to execute _strout, it didn't know which one to call, so it went to never-never land. - Tom Frauenhofer "A closed mouth gathers no feet" - Mark Twain