Date:	Mon, 12 Dec 94 13:10:42 -0500
From:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	IBBT0 AT cc DOT uab DOT es
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Help about truncating files

DOS says that if you write zero bytes, the file is truncated where the
pointer is.  With FILE* streams, this is tricky (because of the
caching), but what you can do is this:

	fflush(f);
	lseek(fileno(f), POS, 0);
	write(fileno(f), 0, 0);

You should close the file ASAP after this - I've seen DOS get confused
when you use this feature.

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