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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: pending/2112
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2112; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: pending/2112
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:43:45 PST

 >Hmm, so now, do you think the suggested patch is OK? ;-)
 
 I can't see any reason not to have it.  RFC783 is relatively
 silent on the subject, but "replacing the file in place" is
 a much more intuitive operation than "replacing the first
 N bytes of the file and leaving the rest there".
 
   Bill