* 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? :-) Cheers, Ralf