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Subject: Re: Chop off end of file
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* Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-06-26 01:57 +0200]
>  Is it possible to just chop off the end of a file, without making a copy 


I figured it out. Seems truncate(1) was it. 


Svein Halvor