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Re: Broken basename()
>>In article <19990601105349.A25181@maybe.org>, Dale Harris <rodmur@maybe.org> writes:
> If you are just stripping the path, you could just do something like:
> progname = (tmpptr = strrchr(argv[0],'/')) ? tmpptr + 1 : argv[0];
No, please no. I have trouble right now with sources like that which
have to be ported to NT. Every single occurrence has one forward
version and one backward version (pun intended!). That's the reason
for using well-defined functions, to avoid that kind of system
dependency.
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