From: makulik AT tf16 DOT mch DOT sni DOT de (Makulik.Guenther T 27528 R 91-811 WS tx24 ) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: open() question Date: 5 Aug 1997 11:09:07 GMT Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Inc. Lines: 9 Message-ID: <5s71kj$c7h$1@horus.mch.sni.de> References: <33e1f561 DOT 1686433 AT news DOT pacific DOT net DOT sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: tmntn.mch.sni.de To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Victor (fesenko AT pacific DOT net DOT sg) wrote: : I'm having a problem with open() function. As I understand using : open("file.dat",O_RDWR|O_BINARY|O_CREAT) a new file has to be created ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Try O_TRUNC! hth Guenther