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RE: the file truncate API is limited and inconvenient
> From: giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl
> To: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: the file truncate API is limited and inconvenient
> Perhaps it was the magnetic tape drives that could not truncate a file,
>
> Puzzled,
> Chris
Utterly irrelevant but it is possible to truncate a file following any block
on some (most?) kinds of magnetic tape? by writing a tape mark there.
John
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