Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:16:28 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: printf, cprintf and CR/LF problem
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Steamer wrote:

> Radical NetSurfer wrote:
> 
> > /* Still waiting to learn what a 16-bit entity is called on a 32-bit
> > platform (since WORD has been made in an ambiguous term. */
> 
> There has never been a standard word size, so "word" has always been
> ambiguous.

FWIW, I've changed the Info docs of getw and putw to explicitly say they 
read/write a 32-bit entity.  At least those who read the docs will now 
know unambigously what to expect.