Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:35:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>
cc: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with strncpy (DJGPP in msdos window in win95)
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Art S. Kagel wrote:

> Peter's
> recommended code is correct, very standard (I do it that way myself),
> and very efficient (the, perhaps unneccessary assignment is a lot
> cheaper than the test that could eliminate it).

Another simple solution to this problem is to initialize the buffer
with a single '\0' character, then use `strncat' instead of `strncpy'.
A frequently-overlooked feature of `strncat' is that it *always* puts
the terminating null character after the copied characters.

(Maybe I should make this the tip of the week ;-).