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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 1997 17:26:54 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anybody heard of fgetwpent() and putpwent()?
Message-ID:  <199712042326.RAA27270@unix.tfs.net>

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>      PUTPWENT(3C)                DYNIX/ptx                PUTPWENT(3C)
>
> [...]
> 
> I'm not really sure why this is useful, but I suppose that you could do
> the same thing with a printf() format string.

i guess it was for people who cannot read passwd(5)...  not a bad idea
though..  dupe checking as a feature would be nice...  better yet, a
buffer write instead of actually printing it would be better a la sprintf().

jim
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