On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Thomas Dickey wrote on Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:13:07PM CET:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
dirname and basename are not portable to ancient hosts. In practice
they will work fine, though. I'd write
I know that dirname is not, but what platform did not support basename?
No idea myself. Where does dirname not work? :-)
hmm - I can remember when it was a problem (around 1990), but can't
recall whether it was Apollo SR9, SunOS 3 or HPUX. You did say
"ancient"...
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