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  1. .Na "dbstrlen" 
  2. .Aa
  3. .Fu
  4. Return the length, in characters, of the command buffer.
  5. .Ih "command buffer, length of"
  6. .Sy
  7. .Sf "int dbstrlen(dbproc)"
  8. .Sp "DBPROCESS" "*dbproc"
  9. .Co
  10. .Bl
  11. .I "dbstrlen()"
  12. finds the length, in characters, of the command buffer.
  13. .Bl
  14. Internally,
  15. the command buffer is a linked list of non-null-terminated text strings.
  16. .I "dbgetchar(), dbstrcpy(),"
  17. and
  18. .I "dbstrlen()"
  19. together provide a way to locate and copy parts of the command buffer.
  20. .Bz
  21. .Pa
  22. .Pi dbproc
  23. A pointer to the DBPROCESS structure that provides the connection
  24. for a particular front-end/\*S process.  It contains all the
  25. information that \*L uses to manage communications and data between the
  26. front end and \*S.
  27. .in -.375i
  28. .Re
  29. .br
  30. The length, in characters, of the command buffer.
  31. .Sa
  32. dbcmd,
  33. dbfcmd,
  34. dbfreebuf,
  35. dbgetchar,
  36. dbstrcpy
  37.