From:	"Graham Reeds" <grahamr AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Extracting a directory name.
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> ...with this:
>
>    BaseDir[0] = '\0';
>    strncat(BaseDir, Directory, bytestocopy);

That's pretty cool.  I never thought of that.

> The use of "%li" happens to work on many implementations but is not
> guaranteed to be portable and will break hideously on some.

It was just a way of getting it to display how ever many it needed for human
(me) verification.  It's been taken out now.

Thanks, Graham Reeds

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