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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: truncating a file opened via open()
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 03:47:05 EDT
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UNIX System III/V do not have any way to truncate a file.
The best kludge is to recopy the whole file up to the point of
truncation (yuck).