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From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd]
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Date: 3 Sep 92 18:33:02 GMT
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In article <Bty3Bz.DE5@ibmpcug.co.uk> adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) writes:

   doscan and doprnt are the low-level routines that scanf and printf
   use.

make that doscan and doprnt are low-level routines that *some*
*implementations* of scanf and printf use.  one should not rely on
these being available as part of the C library.
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