From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: fstream.open??
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:27:01 -0300
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Peter Danielsson wrote:

> I want to change the first byte in a file using fstream. If i use
> fil.open then fil.write(&ch,1) then fil.close() I get a 1byte large file
> only including ch. What can I do??
>
> /Peter

Try this:
fstream File(Filename, ios::app);
File.seekp(0,ios::beg);
File.write("a",1);
File.close();


I think there is a way to open a file so that it starts at 0 but is not
truncated, but I don't know how.  There is a enum for it "ios::trunc" but
that seems to be the default, I wonder how you can unset that?

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