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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:28:48 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Elfyn McBratney <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?
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Hello Elfyn,

>> I found a thread from January about these two functions.  Are they
>> included in the meantime?

> Nope.  I was working on implementing there libgen functions as I had a
> need for them in application where they were a) not availabe and b) I
> could not use the *BSD/[L]GPL versions.

Why are the *BSD versions not usable?

> I believe Nicholas Worums was working (or still is working) on importing
> them into newlib, at least that's how I read a post of his on
> cygwin-patches, IIRC.

> I would do this myself, but I have committed myself to far too much, and
> even simple things like this just get left on the back-burner.

No problem, I need also 24 more hours a day;)


Gerrit
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