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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do I SHORTEN a file without rewriting it?
Message-ID: <122@garth.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 19:50:43 GMT
References: <1162@bilver.UUCP> <179@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> <1244@bilver.UUCP> <1990Oct27.231207.5611@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Oct27.231207.5611@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>operations, since there are so many brain-damaged operating systems out

Like Unix.

NOS, on the other hand, delinks following tracks (truncates the file) for all
sequential writes.
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