Anyone know what this does?

From: WarRat (warrat@erinet.com)
Date: 12/14/96


Found this a while back, never figured it out, found it again a few days ago
and decided to ask about it.

Anybody know what minlen is supposed to do here?  It's declared, never
assigned a value, and used.  I checked the strn_cmp and it's not being ued
there to pass a value back.  This code is from ACMD(do_help).

int minlen;

/other stuff/

    } else if (!(chk = strn_cmp(argument, help_table[mid].keyword, minlen))) {
      /* trace backwards to find first matching entry. Thanks Jeff Fink! */
      while ((mid > 0) &&
      (!(chk = strn_cmp(argument, help_table[mid - 1].keyword, minlen))))

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