redhat man page for printw

curs_printw(3X) 														   curs_printw(3X)

NAME
       printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw, vw_printw - print formatted output in curses windows

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curses.h>

       int printw(const char *fmt, ...);
       int wprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, ...);
       int mvprintw(int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);
       int mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);
       int vwprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);
       int vw_printw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);

DESCRIPTION
       The  printw, wprintw, mvprintw and mvwprintw routines are analogous to printf [see printf(3S)].	In effect, the string that would be output
       by printf is output instead as though waddstr were used on the given window.

       The vwprintw and wv_printw routines are analogous to vprintf [see printf(3S)] and perform a wprintw using a variable  argument  list.   The
       third argument is a va_list, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in <stdarg.h>.

RETURN VALUE
       Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful com-
       pletion.

PORTABILITY
       The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.  The function vwprintw is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be  replaced  by  a
       function  vw_printw  using  the	<stdarg.h>  interface.	 The  Single  Unix Specification, Version 2 states that vw_printw  is preferred to
       vwprintw since the latter requires including <varargs.h>, which cannot be used in the same file as <stdarg.h>.	This  implementation  uses
       <stdarg.h> for both, because that header is included in <curses.h>.

SEE ALSO
       curses(3X), printf(3S), vprintf(3S)

																   curs_printw(3X)