How do I SHORTEN a file without rewriting it?

[Steven Ryan]

In article <1990Oct27.231207.5611 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>operations, since there are so many brain-damaged operating systems out

Like Unix.

NOS, on the other hand, delinks following tracks (truncates the file) for all
sequential writes.
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...!uunet!ingr!apd!smryan                                       Steven Ryan
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