How do you truncate a file?

[Jeremy J Starcher]

In article <1991May6.194614.9641 at pensoft.uucp> lwb at pensoft.uucp (Lance Bledsoe) writes:
>In article <f25g_zd at rpi.edu> fitz at mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
>>Rudi Cilibrasi writes:
>>>Suppose I have a 100-byte file called "myfile.dat", and I want to get
>>>rid of the last 10 bytes.
>>
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>main () {
>>int	i;
>>for (i=0; i < 90 ; i++) {
>>		(void) putchar(getchar());
>
>Do you think you could have thought of a *slower* way to do this???
>

#include <stdio.h>
main () 
{
 int i;

  for (i = 0; i < 90; i++)
  {
    (void) putchar(getchar());
    sleep(60);            /* Make it even slower */
  }
}


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