>mh-format says this:
>
> When a function or component escape is interpreted and the result
> will be immediately printed, an optional field width can be
> specified to print the field in exactly a given number of
> characters.
>
>Note the text, "optional field width." Thus,
>> But how would you exit the loop, that's what I don't understand.
>
>Me neither. I was hoping a caller that bothered to check for a non-NULL
>return would explain but didn't notice one. Is JLR still around?
He posted to nmh-workers a year ago, but I don't know how much he keeps up
with what's
Ken Hornstein writes:
> Earl Hood mentioned that he was running into problems with "repl"
> hanging, and I ran into the same thing as well during some testing
> here, so I went and tracked down the problem. Basically, it boils
> down to the use of %(putaddr) when "num" is zero.
>
> %(putaddr) us
Hi Ken,
> the idea was that if fmt_scan() returned non-NULL, you'd call
> fmt_scan() again and you'd pick up after the FT_DONE instruction?
That's my understanding.
> But how would you exit the loop, that's what I don't understand.
Me neither. I was hoping a caller that bothered to check for a
