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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1582 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:49:28 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!emory!ogicse!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] truncating the beginning of a file Message-ID: <1m0lejINNhpr@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 18 Feb 93 18:44:35 GMT Article-I.D.: life.1m0lejINNhpr References: <1lm5qhINN8vb@life.ai.mit.edu> <C2HKn4.Bry@sugar.neosoft.com> Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <C2HKn4.Bry@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > As for putting the beginning of the file's data in there, I'd like to > suggest putting the *end* of the file's data in there for regular > files, [...] This is not what I had in mind. I simply want to be able to chop off the beginning of a file, like ftruncate() chops off the end. I can think of several important applications which would benefit greatly from this. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!