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Special characters are handled as in addch.
X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementation, if the window parameter is null or the str parameter is null, an error is returned.
Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using wmove, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. This is probably an error, since it makes this group of functions inconsistent. Also, no implementation of curses documents this inconsistency.
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