ncurses-5.0-20000617

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libform/form_field_info.3 b/lib/libform/form_field_info.3
index c8b6b544401..da148a01c1f 100644
--- a/lib/libform/form_field_info.3
+++ b/lib/libform/form_field_info.3
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 '\" t
-.\" $OpenBSD: form_field_info.3,v 1.7 1999/01/22 03:30:53 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: form_field_info.3,v 1.8 2000/06/19 03:53:56 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                        *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 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            *
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $From: form_field_info.3x,v 1.5 1998/11/29 01:06:24 Rick.Ohnemus Exp $
+.\" $From: form_field_info.3x,v 1.6 2000/04/15 22:21:31 tom Exp $
 .TH form_field_info 3 ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBform_field_info\fR - retrieve field characteristics
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ The header file \fB<form.h>\fR automatically includes the header file
 .SH PORTABILITY
 These routines emulate the System V forms library.  They were not supported on
 Version 7 or BSD versions.
+.PP
+A null (zero pointer) is accepted for any of the return values,
+to ignore that value.
+Not all implementations allow this, e.g., Solaris 2.7 does not.
 .SH AUTHORS
 Juergen Pfeifer.  Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric
 S. Raymond.