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 #R:sri-unix:-298900:esquire:900002:000:534 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.