Re: possible typo in ncurses manpage

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Nick Michaluk wrote:

> Hello, I hope I have the correct email address to report this:
>
> on my system with the latest version of ncurses installed (according to
> Gentoo it is ncurses 5.4-r1) there appears to be a typo in the ncurses
> manpage:
>
> in the Routine Name Index table near the beginning of the manpage,
> listed is "getcchar     curs_getcchar(3X)"
>
> When I go to compile a program attempting to use this routine, I am told
> that it does not exist. However, when I go to use "getchar" (getcchar
> without the extra 'c') it works perfectly.
>
> Thank you for your time (this is my first bug-report of any sort, so I
> apologize if I did not follow proper protocol)

It's not a typo - ncurses installs manpages for the normal and
wide-character functions whether you have configured it for
wide-characters or not.

Some of the manpages describe both wide- and normal functions (depending
on how things are grouped), while some describe wide-only or normal-only.

Anything that uses cchar_t, wchar_t types belongs to the wide-character
functions.

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