How do I SHORTEN a file without rewriting it?

[John Passaniti]

 > As long as we're on the subject, does anyone have a
 > neat-o method for getting rid of records from the
 > _beginning_ of a file?  (Standard preferred,
 > but if there's an MSDOS way, I'll accept it....)

     If you are interested in a SLEAZY way to do this 
quickly, and if your records are multiples of the size of 
your minimum allocation units (clusters in MS-DOS), then you 
can modify the directory entry of the file to point to 
whatever record you want to start at.  Change the file size 
as necessary, and free the unused clusters at the beginning 
of the file.

     I said it was sleazy...


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