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From: BLARSON%ECLD@ECLA (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Copy strings with \"strcpy\", not an idiom
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 13:51:23 EST
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I don't seem to have problems with strncpy not leaving a terminating '\0'.
Maybe this is because I always make sure the n is at least one less than
the length of the destination, and that the last character of the array
is initialized to '\0'.  I thought that this technique was obvious.

Bob Larson <BLarson@Usc-Ecl.Arpa>
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