From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re(2): %r format item is gone Article-I.D.: ima.212 Posted: Tue Sep 7 11:57:00 1982 Received: Wed Sep 8 02:13:46 1982 I hear that %r is gone from System III because Dennis Ritchie felt it was excessively unportable. It pretty much assumes that if you pass the wrong number of arguments to a function, they're matched up left to right, and that you can treat the arguments to a function as a vector. At INTERACTIVE Systems, when we cranked up System III we missed %r enough that we added new stdio functions that give you pretty much the same power but use the more portable va_args stuff. Others might want to do the same. John Levine, decvax!cca!ima!johnl, harpo!esquire!ima!johnl (uucp) Levine@YALE (Arpa), 617-491-5450 (desperation) --------