Truncating a File

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From: Mark Hjelm
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:44

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My apologies if this is an faq, but is there a direct way to truncate
a file under DOS?  Copy/delete/rename seems a bit inefficient to me.

Thanks,
Mark Hjelm
hjelm@cs.cmu.edu

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