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[PATCH 42/51] man/curs_ins_wstr.3x: Add "HISTORY" section.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [PATCH 42/51] man/curs_ins_wstr.3x: Add "HISTORY" section.
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:53:43 -0500

---
 man/curs_ins_wstr.3x | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/curs_ins_wstr.3x b/man/curs_ins_wstr.3x
index 6d3d88598..28e5e0975 100644
--- a/man/curs_ins_wstr.3x
+++ b/man/curs_ins_wstr.3x
@@ -164,6 +164,31 @@ .SH PORTABILITY
 implementations.
 Nevertheless,
 Issue 7 retains the language.
+.SH HISTORY
+These functions were initially specified by X/Open Curses,
+Issue 4.
+The System\ V Interface Definition,
+Version 4 (1995),
+specified functions named
+.I \%winswstr
+and
+.I \%winsnwstr
+(and the usual variants).
+.\" SVID 4, vol 3., p. 513
+.\" The prototypes also identify the data type as `wchar`, not
+.\" `wchar_t`, but this may be an error since the "DESCRIPTION" section
+.\" consistently uses the latter. --GBR
+These were later additions to
+.RI SVr4. x ,
+not appearing in the first SVr4 (1989).
+They differ from X/Open's later
+.I \%wins_wstr
+and
+.I \%wins_nwstr
+in that their
+.I wstr
+parameters are not
+.IR const -qualified.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fB\%curs_insstr\fP(3X) describes comparable functions of the
 .I \%ncurses
-- 
2.30.2

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