Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!robert From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Sprintf to disappear Message-ID: <207@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 01:31:26 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.207 Posted: Sun Mar 10 01:31:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 22:12:40 EST References: <320@wanginst.UUCP> <206@gitpyr.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 19 >< Posted from robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) > >< > Posted from marcus@wanginst.UUCP (Bob Marcus) > > In Bell Labs' next release of the C language, the function 'sprintf' will > > be replaced by 'attf'. The old name will still work, but only if you prefix > > the string argument with a fourteen-digit code. :-) > > Just what is 'attf' supposed to stand for? I _A_B_H_O_R puns. robert -- Robert Viduya Georgia Institute of Technology ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!robert ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!robert