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Date: | Mon, 12 Dec 94 14:38:00 EST |
From: | peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) |
To: | IBBT0 AT cc DOT uab DOT es |
Cc: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | Re: Help about truncating files |
Reply-To: | babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu |
> In other words, I am asking you for a instruction, if possible working in > ANSI C and using streams (fopen(),...), not file handles, to inform the > operating system and the File Allocation Table I want truncate the file. The usual method of truncating a file under DOS is to position to the desired end of file and then write 0 bytes to the file. I think this should work with djgpp but I haven't tried it.
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