Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!apr!las
From: las@apr.UUCP (Larry Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Chopping an existing file
Message-ID: <472@apr.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 17:05:01 GMT
References: <290@ncextb.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: las@apr.UUCP (Larry Shurr)
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Organization: APR, Columbus, OH
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In article <290@ncextb.ncsu.edu> erdman@ncextb.ncsu.edu (erdman) writes:

>   I am looking for a way to shorting the length of an existing file
>without re-writing the whole file.  I know it can be done, dBase III's
>"pack" appears to do this.  Are there any reliable ways to do this?
>Any help would be appreciated.

Seek to the position in the file where you wish to truncate it and
then request a zero-length write.

regards, Larry
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