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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:48:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Bill Priest <priestwilliaml AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: scanf problem
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Bill Priest wrote:

> CGF,
>   I tracked down a syntax error I was seeing in antiword to be a problem
> w/ sscanf.  I did search on the newlib site and found the following
> email
>
> [pechtcha: Bug in scanf &Co (Was Re: Error message from antiword since
> upgrade to cygwin 1.5.10)]
>
> I'm not subscribed to the newlib mailing list.

If you searched the newlib archives, you should have seen the reply to
this saying that a patch was committed.

> Is this fixed in a snapshot and/or do you expect it to be fixed in a
> subsequent release?

AFAIK, Cygwin uses the newlib CVS HEAD, so the snapshot should have the
fix.  FWIW, it works for me with a fresh Cygwin CVS build.
	Igor

> BTW I tried downloading the source for cygwin-1.5.10-3 and
> cygwin-1.5.9-1 showed up in /usr/src using ftp://mirrors.rcn.net and
> ftp://sunsite.utk.edu
>
> Regards,
> Bill

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