[PATCH 04/40] man/curs_get_wstr.3x: Add "HISTORY" section.

[G. Branden Robinson]

---
 man/curs_get_wstr.3x | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/curs_get_wstr.3x b/man/curs_get_wstr.3x
index 66e78993e..7a162fbab 100644
--- a/man/curs_get_wstr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_get_wstr.3x
@@ -363,6 +363,29 @@ .SH PORTABILITY
 for consistency with SVr4
 .IR curses 's
 .IR \%wgetnstr .
+.SH HISTORY
+These functions were initially specified by X/Open Curses Issue\ 4
+(1995).
+The System\ V Interface Definition Version\ 4
+of the same year
+specified functions named
+.I \%wgetwstr
+and
+.I \%wgetnwstr
+(and the usual variants).
+.\" SVID 4, vol 3., p. 500
+These were later additions to
+.RI SVr4. x ,
+not appearing in the first SVr4 (1989).
+Except in name,
+their declarations did not differ from X/Open's later
+.I \%wget_wstr
+and
+.I \%wgetn_wstr
+until
+X/Open Curses Issue 7 (2009)
+eventually changed the type of the buffer argument to a pointer to
+.IR \%wint_t "."
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fB\%curs_getstr\fP(3X) describes comparable functions of the
 .I \%ncurses
-- 
2.30.2

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