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From: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you truncate a file?
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Date: 8 May 91 02:41:58 GMT
References: <1991May5.024348.4203@csusac.csus.edu> <f25g_zd@rpi.edu> <1991May6.194614.9641@pensoft.uucp>
Reply-To: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
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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???
>

#include <stdio.h>
main () 
{
 int i;

  for (i = 0; i < 90; i++)
  {
    (void) putchar(getchar());
    sleep(60);            /* Make it even slower */
  }
}


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