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Subject: Re: Truncating MS-DOS files
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 19:44:56 EST
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Quoting from the Microsoft MS-DOS Version 3 Programmer's Utility Pack,
published Zenith Data Systems, page 4.212,

	The write system call (Function 40H) with a count of 
	zero (CX = 0) will truncate the file at the current position.

Jay K. Joiner
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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