From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Truncating a file at a given length
Date: 22 Jan 2001 16:43:35 -0800
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Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> writes:

> Is there a function in DJGPP libc to truncate a file at a given
> length that is more portable than ftruncate() (not ANSI, not POSIX)?

Not that I know of.  However, despite being not ANSI and not POSIX,
[f]truncate is part of the Single Unix spec and should be supported on
most reasonable Unix systems.

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Nate Eldredge
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