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QTIPS - Truncating DOS Files

Richard Guise informs us of an interesting use for the OSBWRITE command. It seems that if you want to truncate a file at a fixed length the easiest way is to OSBWRITE a null onto the character position to truncate at. Thus if a file were 10 MB in length and only the first 5 MB were required one would


0001       OSBWRITE "" on File_Var at 5120000

(Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 4)
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