XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:57:04 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   > Inspired by readline(), I've written my own replacements for strcpy()   
   > and strcat() that do much the same thing.   
      
   To quote from the strcat man page "Read about Shlemiel the painter.".   
   stpcpy() was a late arrival and I never used it. I do use a similar   
   construct   
      
   char buf[1024];   
   char* ptr = buf;   
      
   ptr += sprintf(ptr, "%s", "some stuff");   
   ptr += sprintf(ptr, "%s", " some more stuff");   
      
   Whether or not I do a test depends on the context.   
      
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