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From: USGCORB%LEHIIBM1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Stephen Corbesero)
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Subject: System V Questions
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 10:45:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 10:45:42 1987
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I have been porting software mostly to System V Unix for some time now, and the
following problems seem to pop up constantly.

  1.  How does SysV do a rename?  I.e, what is the equivalent of the
      Berkeley rename system call?

  2.  Has anyone written a ftruncate (again a Berkeley-ism) for SysV?

  3.  How does one patch an arbitrary binary file?  I need something
      like Norton's IBM PC utilities.

Stephen Corbesero
CSEE Dept, Lehigh University