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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details 
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On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 01:29:17 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:

> Means a syntax error.
> 
> truncate -c -- -1024 nonexistant_file

In actual fact, the introduction of the -r flag, which instructs truncate(1)
to use the size of the file given as an argument, made a good case for
demanding that a specified size argument be given as an argument to an
option.

See http://people.freebsd.org/~sheldonh/truncate/ in Alex's absence.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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