Re: Where is my Fshrink() GEMDOS call ?

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From: Ignac Kolenko
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 23:34

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In article <629@siena.tubopal.UUCP> alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  is there any problem adding a Fshrink(handle,newsize) GEMDOS call
>to the next GEMDOS release ? I think it's very frustrating to shrink files
>through a temporary file (the archiving program I'm writing has to do this
>while deleting files from archive).
>



why not just open the file for write, move the file pointer using
Fseek() and then close the file. that should do what you ask for.



if not, what will do it, Atari?????






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From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
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Subject: Re: Where is my Fshrink() GEMDOS call ?
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Date: 31 Jul 89 23:34:03 GMT
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