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From: marcus@wanginst.UUCP (Bob Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Sprintf to disappear
Message-ID: <320@wanginst.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 12:19:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 12:19:36 1985
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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I originally posted this to net.rumor, but now it's official:

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.  :-)


				       Bob Marcus
				       Wang Institute of Graduate Studies

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