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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/print.3ncurses b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/print.3ncurses new file mode 100644 index 00000000..32605612 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/print.3ncurses @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +.\"*************************************************************************** +.\" Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey * +.\" Copyright 1998-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" * +.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * +.\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * +.\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * +.\" without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * +.\" distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell * +.\" copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * +.\" furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * +.\" * +.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * +.\" in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * +.\" * +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * +.\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * +.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, * +.\" DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR * +.\" OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR * +.\" THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * +.\" * +.\" Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright * +.\" holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the * +.\" sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * +.\" authorization. * +.\"*************************************************************************** +.\" +.\" $Id: curs_print.3x,v 1.36 2023/12/23 16:36:18 tom Exp $ +.TH print 3NCURSES 2023-12-23 "ncurses 6.4" "Library calls" +.SH NAME +\fB\%mcprint\fP \- +write binary data to printer using \fIterminfo\fR capabilities +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +\fB#include <ncursesw/curses.h> +.PP +\fBint mcprint(char *\fIdata\fP, int \fIlen\fP); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +This function uses the \fBmc5p\fP or \fBmc4\fP and \fBmc5\fP capabilities, +if they are present, to ship given data to a printer attached to the terminal. +.PP +Note that the \fB\%mcprint\fP code has no way +to do flow control with the printer +or to know how much buffering it has. +Your application is responsible for +keeping the rate of writes to the printer below its continuous throughput rate +(typically about half of its nominal cps rating). +Dot-matrix printers and +6-page-per-minute lasers can typically handle 80cps, so a good conservative +rule of thumb is to sleep for a second after shipping each 80-character line. +. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The \fB\%mcprint\fP function returns \fBERR\fP if the write operation aborted +for some reason. +In this case, \fB\%errno\fP will contain either an error associated +with \fBwrite\fP(2) or one of the following: +.TP 5 +\fBENODEV\fP +Capabilities for printer redirection do not exist. +.TP 5 +\fBENOMEM\fP +Couldn't allocate sufficient memory to buffer the printer write. +.PP +When \fB\%mcprint\fP succeeds, it returns the number of characters actually +sent to the printer. +.SH EXTENSIONS +\fB\%mcprint\fP was designed for +\fB\%ncurses\fP(3NCURSES), +and was not found in SVr4 +.IR curses , +4.4BSD +.IR curses , +or any other previous curses implementation. +.SH PORTABILITY +Applications employing this +.I \%ncurses +extension should condition its use on the visibility of the +.B \%NCURSES_VERSION +preprocessor macro. +.SH BUGS +Padding in the +\fBmc5p\fP, +\fBmc4\fP, and +\fBmc5\fP capabilities is not interpreted. +.SH SEE ALSO +\fB\%ncurses\fP(3NCURSES) |