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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/apm apm.c 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Nov 1997 20:16:14 MST."
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Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 20:20:48 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199711070316.UAA26542@rocky.mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes:
: Forgive me for being naive, but what's the different between the '*' and
: the '*x' commands.  The man-page is less than helpful.

warn will print the errno (as a string), while warnx won't:

     In the case of the err(), verr(), warn(), and vwarn() functions,
     the error message string affiliated with the current value of the global
     variable errno is output.

Warner