From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!nrh
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: %r format item in some printf implem - (nf)
Article-I.D.: esquire.393
Posted: Sat Sep 18 01:06:29 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 09:43:25 1982

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esquire!nrh    Sep 17 23:11:00 1982

***** esquire:net.unix-wizar / uicsovax!hamilton /  4:43 am  Sep 17, 1982

Just a note about the philosophy of using _doprnt instead of "%r"
for portability:

I think you're being hard on the authors of future standard I/O
libraries in using _doprnt, a function that is nowhere documented,
and which, by its name, seems meant to be used by routines 
internal to standard I/O only.

I've no better solution, unless you count an ongoing battle with 
successive implementations of printf(), but feel that _doprnt
should be out of sight.