From: "Graham Reeds" <grahamr AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Extracting a directory name.
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> Did you consider the possibility that strncpy might not null-terminate
> the resulting string in BaseDir?

I did, and tried to append one with strcat, but that didn't solve the
problem.

> (Btw, there are library functions to do this, called `basename' and
> `direname'.  They are better than your code, because they also support
> forward slashes and file names like d:foo.)

I've never heard of basename and/or dirname.  They work fine, though a
forward slash causes a SISEGV like my code did.  How portable are these?
I'm looking to porting these to Win32 + MSVC.  Looking ahead I'm going to
have hosts of fun with findfirst(), findnext(), getcwd(), etc., and
considering MSDN is about as helpful as platearmour in a thunderstorm...:-(

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Thanks, Graham Reeds.