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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: re: how has C bitten you?
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 05:45:27 EDT
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> Does anyone know what the proposed ANSI standard says about (%X meaning
> "print hexadecimal with capital A-F" instead of "print a "long" in
> hexadecimal with lower-case a-f", and likewise for %E and %G)?

It agrees with Systems III and V, Sun 4.2BSD, and, I believe, 4.3BSD - %X
means print an "int" in hex with capital A-F.

(Note that if you use %D, put a number followed by something else using a
% format, and put your code under SCCS, you get a *big* surprise
- %D% gets expanded into the date...)

	Guy Harris