[NCLUG] getpath?

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Michael Dwyer:
> 
> At 03:25 PM 12/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Thus spake Michael Dwyer:
> > >
> > > At 10:31 AM 12/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >  Anyone know where I might find source to a command called getpath (and
> > > >strippath which may be related)? I have no idea what package they may even
> > > >be a part of.
> 
> 
> >  I have them in an old, old directory which has been used by my engineers
> >for ages (both binaries dated Jan 1991). I think they were copied over
> >there before they were lost or something.
> 
> Here's a reference in comp.sources.misc for a command that rips apart a 
> full name into drive, path, name, and extension.  It is more intended for 
> MS-DOS, apparently.
> 
> http://www.landfield.com/software/comp.sources.misc/volume-issue/volume03/v03i046.gz
> 
> Strippath may come with the CVS packages.  There is a strippath.c file in 

 Yeah, thought about that - had cvs installed and no strippath. Must be a
function.

> the sources, it looks like.  Other than that, I cannot find anything out 
> there!  These have man pages and everything, though?  Hmmm... I can't find 
> anything at sunhelp.org, either.  What are these commands supposed to 
> do?  Would basename and the other one fit the bill?  Would it be possible 
> to replace them with a snippet of Perl?

 Oh, absolutely. I was just trying to keep this tree I'm building as true
to the original in completelness without having to rewrite anything. :-)

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