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From: brucet@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bruce Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
Summary: Strncpy <=> Bcopy?
Keywords: strncpy null termination
Message-ID: <2287@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 89 01:36:04 GMT
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Reply-To: brucet@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca.UUCP (Bruce Thompson)
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I must be naive, and may be repeating things others have put in, but it seems
to me that if null termination is not needed/wanted, why not use bcopy?

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