>From csk at UCLA-Security Tue Oct 27 19:04:36 1981 Maybe I am a little dense, but: strcpyn, strcatn, and strcmpn are already unique in the first 6 chars! strncpy, strncat, and strncmp are 7 chars (still unique in 6) so what was accomplished by the change? (they didn't shorten to 6 chars, and they were already unique!)