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From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I SHORTEN a file without rewriting it?
Summary: Try chsize()
Keywords: truncation
Message-ID: <6108@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 19:15:37 GMT
References: <1162@bilver.UUCP> <1990Oct24.152300.12847@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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>Is there a way to shorten a file, that is, chop some data off the end of
>it, so that it doesn't consume as much physical space on the disk?

There's a function called chsize(int handle, long size) in the Turbo-C
library for exactly this purpose.