In a message dated 10/11/1999 6:10:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Iain.Mott@cmis.CSIRO.AU writes:

<< the main difference between strcat and makefilename is that you can't write something like "makefilename $1%s" - although Miller tells me this will soon be possible. Within an abstraction, strcat allows you to place a $1 type argument within it. - i've then been using loadbang connected to a "symbol $2" object to feed the second argument into the "strcat $1". -> problem solved. >>

Thanks for the clarification on the distinction between strcat and makefilename.

Ben,

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