"_doprnt" query

[Mikel Manitius]

> > I am trying to get a screen editor working on my Fortune 32:16 system.  It
> > keeps crashing in the routine "_doprnt" (giving me a memory addressing error).
> > I can't seem to find any documentation on it.
> 
> _doprnt() is used internally by the printf() family of functions.
> One common cause of crashes in it is passing a bum pointer for a
> %s format spec, or not having the correct number of arguments.

A common missuse of scanf and sprintf, is calling by value and
not by address. The target variable should be called by address.
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