This is helpful, thanks. And I assume that no one imagined that you would need more variants of strcpy to begin with, strncpy is a pretty good name too, and the

This is helpful, thanks. And I assume that no one imagined that you would need more variants of strcpy to begin with, strncpy is a pretty good name too, and then it's hard to break the pattern. Similar situations with lots of other names. I just wish that C style used fewer single char names and hard-to-decipher acronyms. Smart programmers can't read minds either...