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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: OpenOffice.org, Beowulf, Dia, Units, Printf, ScummVM, Go-oo, RPath, Quattor, LibreOffice, Synchronet, GNU Core Utilities, Dc, ARIS Express, Terminfo, List of Plan 9 applications, GNU Screen, Redirection, Linter SQL RDBMS, Baudline, Wvdial, Spooling, List of Inferno applications, Conserver, HylaFAX, Fortune, Unison, LastBASH, Fontconfig, Nix package manager, YEd, Zekr, Kannel, Dmesg, Utmp, Lspci, Stty, SiSU, Network UPS Tools, Yes, Speak, GPhoto, Crystal Enterprise, Apcupsd, Console application, GeneWeb, Glk, GpsDrive, Xxencode, Heirloom Project, Getty, Plan 9 from User Space, Run commands, Unix2dos, Tip, Efax, Vmstat, Mpstat, Gutenprint, Gtkam, Say, Star, Modules Environment, Lpr, Clear, Xilp, History, Yukon. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Printf functions (which stands for "print formatted") are a class of functions typically associated with some types of programming languages. They accept a string parameter called the format string, which specifies a method for rendering an arbitrary number of varied data type parameter(s) into a string. This string is then by default printed on the standard output stream, but variants exist that perform other tasks with the result. Characters in the format string are usually copied literally into the function's output, with the other parameters being rendered into the resulting text at points marked by format specifiers, which are typically introduced by a % character. Many programming languages implement a printf function, to output a formatted string. It originated from the C programming language, where it has a prototype similar to the following: The string constant format provides a description of the output, with placeholders marked by "%" escape characters, to specify both the relative location and the type of output that the function should produce. The return value yields th...
