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mwoehlke wrote:
> I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened 
> it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in 
> troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1 
> pages, for instance)... So, is this just "how the C lib manpages are"?
> 
> I am not going to submit a "patch" on this mess. If I do anything with 
> it, I am going to submit a proper troff document. Given how much work I 
> would have to do to fix the existing page, I am much more inclined to 
> take my printf.3 from my Linux box and adjust it into consistency with 
> Cygwin's printf() instead. I'm willing to clean up the existing manpage, 
> but I think the style of the Linux manpage would be an improvement (what 
> we have looks like it came from HP-UX or something).
> 
> Any opinions?

Ok, no doubt this manpage needs to be overhauled. I am going from the 
Linux page and finding several omissions in the one currently in Cygwin 
("%F", as well as "%ll?").

WCTS, does anyone know to what extent locale stuff is supported? The 
"%'" modifier? "%*d", etc? "%$1d", etc? "%*1$d", etc?

-- 
Matthew
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