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From: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you truncate a file?
Message-ID: <p_8gv5a@rpi.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 04:13:45 GMT
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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???

Since the original poster's program uses fread and fwrite, it will run
much faster than mine does, especially if his fread and fwrite call a
decent assembler implementation of bcopy.

The speed point is well taken, but neither the buffered I/O functions
nor the character macros help Rudi, who would like to truncate his file
in place without reading it into memory or using a temporary file.
He's not running unix, and I think he's looking elsewhere for help
now.

Brian