Subj : Re: more chess
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Rodney Hester
Date : Wed Nov 28 2001 11:47 am

In a message of 24 Nov 01 Jasen Betts wrote to All:

 JB>  I'm looking for a way to truncate a file but I can't find one -
 JB>  %@fileseek[%fh,0,1] doesn't do it like it 'should' - 4dos
 JB>  treats that a a special case :(

If I'm correctly understanding your definition of 'truncate', @fileseek can't 
be used for that at all.  Why not just delete the file and then use "touch /c" 
to recreate it as a 0-byte file?

If that isn't what you meant by truncate, skip it.  :)

- Rodney

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