Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!minow From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: _doprnt and friends, the moral Message-ID: <18@decvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 19:41:39 EDT Article-I.D.: decvax.18 Posted: Fri Jun 22 19:41:39 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 07:15:49 EDT References: <196@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: DEC UNIX Engineering Group Lines: 17 The moral of the story is that there is a perceived need for a _doprnt-like facility. Perhaps someone could propose a routine such as the following to the ANSI committee: vprintf(iov, format, vector) FILE *iov; /* Stream to output to */ char *format; /* printf format string */ STUFF *vector; /* vector of data for output */ STUFF would be defined as the union of all built-in datatypes. vsprintf(buffer, ...), vscanf(), and vsscanf() might also be useful. Martin Minow decvax!minow