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:I don't agree with that, since the other functions return the number of
:characters printed as well.

    Yes, but not portably.  The ANSI standard tried to standardize it but
    the reality is that only snprintf()'s return value is portable.  If you
    try to use the return value from other functions as a count, your code
    won't be portable.  asprintf() *might* be portable too, but nothing else.

						-Matt


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