The description of sprintf in the man page pic(1) does not reveal that only a few format codes are permitted.
Eric Raymond's "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" says only %,%e,%f,%g are permitted. But what does a bare % mean? In fact pic rejects a bare %. However it does accept %%, which is supposed to print a single %. Pic, however prints %%. So I believe we have 1. An incompleteness in pic(1) 2. An error in "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" 3. An error in pic itself Doug
