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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:30:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1)
Message-ID:  <200001181930.LAA15273@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/15929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To: dhagan@cs.vt.edu (Daniel Hagan)
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:26:54 -0800 (PST)

 Daniel Hagan writes:
 > Does this adequately explain it?
 
 Looks great, thanks. .. but why "\e000" and not "\000" ?
 
 > + .Pp
 > + The escape sequence \e000 is the string terminator.  When present in the
 > + .Ar format  ,
 > + the 
 > + .Ar format
 > + will be truncated at the \e000 character.
 
 -Archie
 
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