Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Sat Jul 22 02:33:00 GMT 2000

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On Jul 22, 2000, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com> wrote:

> In contrast, `dirname' (when it exists) will always DTRT, because it
> is tailored to the host system.

Unfortunately, `dirname' is too far from being portable.  We must not
depend on its existence.

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