From 02348e770b5b5b6eb102a77186e413f4a6bf0bde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:40:42 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Use new helper function.

---
 src/std/dev/devPrintfSoft.c | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/std/dev/devPrintfSoft.c b/src/std/dev/devPrintfSoft.c
index 4ed16ae15..a61d4bbfb 100644
--- a/src/std/dev/devPrintfSoft.c
+++ b/src/std/dev/devPrintfSoft.c
@@ -16,16 +16,7 @@
 
 static long write_string(printfRecord *prec)
 {
-    struct link *plink = &prec->out;
-    int dtyp = dbGetLinkDBFtype(plink);
-
-    if (dtyp < 0)
-        return 0;   /* Not connected */
-
-    if (dtyp == DBR_CHAR || dtyp == DBF_UCHAR)
-        return dbPutLink(plink, dtyp, prec->val, prec->len);
-
-    return dbPutLink(plink, DBR_STRING, prec->val, 1);
+    return dbPutLinkLS(&prec->out, prec->val, prec->len);
 }
 
 printfdset devPrintfSoft = {