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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details 
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:14:26 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> By the way, does Alexander's implementation handle negative numbers
> as well (meaning the numbers of bytes to strip from the end of the
> file)?  If not, I'd like to submit a patch for this, as I've found
> that feature to be extremely useful (e.g. ``truncate -128 foo.mp3'' to
> strip ID3 junk from mp3 files).

I plan to patch his version to allow prepending + and - to the size to
indicate a delta rather than an absolute size.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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