From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:01:35 -0500 From: Rob Pike rob@plan9.bell-labs.com Subject: [9fans] fprint(int fd, const char* format,...); Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6bc311d0-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19971121160135.I-_cY8ZOdW8e7kWhLHbF-7Dk5MU2sgj6dh13ecnCIyY@z> Not that it matters much, but I'm pretty sure that the 'print' library was done as part of an emulation library for writing Plan 9-like tools. That style of print (c.f. printf) started around here when Andrew Hume wrote a new buffered I/O library for Version 8 Unix. The style continued through a couple of more libraries and found its way into Plan 9. -rob