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From: tanner@cdis-1.UUCP (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
Summary: unkind remarks
Message-ID: <000003Q@cdis-1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 90 16:56:09 GMT
References: <e-mail_to_poser> <11527@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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In <11527@csli.Stanford.EDU>, poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes...
) In response to my query about why strncpy does not null terminate ...
Your consideration of strcpy()/strncpy() is more than a little
reminiscent of a man who has in hand a claw hammer and a ball peen
hammer, and who wishes to know why he can't pull nails with the
latter.
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