need info: %r in printf - (nf)

Wed Oct 12 13:03:39 AEST 1983

#R:fortune:-158700:fortune:16200007:000:412
fortune!olson    Oct 11 19:57:00 1983

John, you are out of luck on this one.  %r was a beautiful kludge which
was undocumented, and went away with post V7 releases.  What it did was allow
you to pass a char ** to printf.  printf then took the rest of the format and
arguments from that pointer.  This was wonderful for doing a common debug/error
function.  It went away .....

By the way, anything following the %r in the format was totally ignored