[PATCH 109/177] man/curs_inwstr.3x: Add "HISTORY" section.

[G. Branden Robinson]

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 man/curs_inwstr.3x | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/curs_inwstr.3x b/man/curs_inwstr.3x
index 64eba54cf..f4eda2153 100644
--- a/man/curs_inwstr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_inwstr.3x
@@ -217,6 +217,28 @@ .SH PORTABILITY
 .BR \%mvwinstr "."
 .I \%ncurses
 regards this inconsistency as an error in the standard.
+.SH HISTORY
+The System\ V Interface Definition,
+Version 4 (1995),
+specified
+.I \%winwstr
+and
+.I \%winnwstr
+(and the usual variants).
+.\" SVID 4, vol 3., p. 516
+These were later additions to
+.RI SVr4. x ,
+not appearing in the first SVr4 (1989).
+Their synopses described each function as taking
+an argument of type
+.RI pointer-to- char
+instead of
+.RI pointer-to- wchar_t ,
+despite describing them as \*(``returning the string of
+.I \%wchar_t
+in
+.IR str "\*(''."
+Presumably this was an error in the System\ V Interface Definition.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fB\%curs_instr\fP(3X) describes comparable functions of the
 .I \%ncurses
-- 
2.30.2

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