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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/386: *s field width specification doesn't seem to work for printf 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 May 1995 19:09:13 PDT."
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Date: Sat, 06 May 1995 20:30:18 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>   A field width or precision, or both, may be indicated by an asterisk `*'
>   instead of a digit string.  In this case, an int argument supplies the

Ahhhhhhh...  I read this totally wrong - I read "argument" to be
"argument to the % expression, e.g. "%*8s" Foo.  I don't know quite
why it struck me that way the first time, but it did.  Your explanation
makes a lot more sense! :-)

I will close the PR.

					Jordan