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From: dfpedro@uswnvg.UUCP (Donn Pedro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you truncate a file?
Message-ID: <792@uswnvg.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 14:23:44 GMT
References: <1991May5.024348.4203@csusac.csus.edu> <f25g_zd@rpi.edu> <1991May6.194614.9641@pensoft.uucp>
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In article <1991May6.194614.9641@pensoft.uucp>, lwb@pensoft.uucp (Lance Bledsoe) writes:
: In article <f25g_zd@rpi.edu> fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
: >Rudi Cilibrasi writes:
: >>Suppose I have a 100-byte file called "myfile.dat", and I want to get
: >>rid of the last 10 bytes.
: >
: >#include <stdio.h>
: >main () {
: >int	i;
: >for (i=0; i < 90 ; i++) {
: >		(void) putchar(getchar());
: 
: Do you think you could have thought of a *slower* way to do this???

Could you then post the *faster* way?



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