Re: [Mingw-users] truncate

[Martin K. <mar...@in...>]

Hi Brian,

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:42:35PM -0600, Henning, Brian wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to truncate a binary file. I was looking into the function
> truncate(). There is an undefined reference to it when i try to use it in my
> program. I looked through the include files under mingw and did not find a
> prototype.  Is this a unix specific function or is there another function
> that works in place of it under mingw? any suggestions? 

I had a similar problem some time ago and the Window's way of doing that
seems to be to
1. _open the file
2. use _chsize(fd, newlen)
3. close it.

This works o.k. for me, up to now.

Hope that helps,
Martin.

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