Subj : Re: more chess
To   : Steve
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Fri Nov 30 2001 10:36 pm

Hi Steve.

29-Nov-01 10:54:20, Steve wrote to Rodney.Hester@xspamp11.f45.n396.z1.

 S> If (as Rodney interprets it) you mean by "truncate" to remove ALL
 S> of its content, an even easier way i

By truncate I mean "cut the end off".

 S> If you intended to start writing to a file at a specific position,
 S> overwriting whateve was beyond it, you can use @fileseek, followed
 S> b its original end, the original information might be left over...

I want to keep the start but lose the end of the file.
most other languages with %@fileseek like capabilities can do that.
I've given up trying, I now write a tag and a pointer to the last record of
the file saying where the file was meant to end when the program sees this
it rewinds back to the record I intended to be last.

 -=> Bye <=-
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