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From: john@wsl.UUCP (John Allen on wsl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strncpy
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Date: 5 Jan 90 01:05:40 GMT
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strncpy() copies the termination NULL byte unless it would overrun the 
specified buffer. THIS IS COOL BEHAVIOUR. Why the hell else have a MAX
byte count specification.

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