Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How do I SHORTEN a file without rewriting it?
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.231207.5611@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1162@bilver.UUCP> <179@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> <1244@bilver.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 23:12:07 GMT

In article <1244@bilver.UUCP> alex@bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich) writes:
>I was hoping there was a portable ANSI-ish way to accomplish this...

Basically, no.  ANSI C unfortunately cannot be very ambitious about file
operations, since there are so many brain-damaged operating systems out
there that are nevertheless viable C environments.
-- 
The type syntax for C is essentially   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
unparsable.             --Rob Pike     |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry