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Ian Kelling wrote:
> I couldn't figure this out. What package to install to get
> man 3 printf ?

  We unfortunately don't have a package of man pages for our C library
functions.  Sorry about that; your best bet is online references.  We have all
the standard C library functions, but Cygwin uses newlib rather than glibc so
it doesn't have all the extended functions that you might find in a set of
Linux libc documentation.  Functions like printf are defined by the C language
spec, so at least in theory any man page for it should be "close enough".

    cheers,
      DaveK

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