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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: truncate
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Date: 3 Aug 90 00:22:41 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <46447@brunix.UUCP> jsb@cs.brown.edu (John Bazik) writes:
: Is it possible to truncate an open file in perl?  (like truncate(2)).

It will be after the next patch, if your machine supports it.

Larry