Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made

From	Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made
Date	2013-07-19 22:34 +0200
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m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl wrote:
> ISTR that on MSDOS one could do RESIZE-FILE by writing
> 0 bytes at the new (smaller) EOF (not obvious) or n bytes at
> the old EOF.

Yes, and on the Atari ST, you couldn't do the first trick.  Shrinking a file 
simply wasn't possible.

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Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
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RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-07-20 00:09 +1000
  Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-07-19 07:55 -0700
    Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-07-19 22:34 +0200
    Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-07-22 14:39 +1000
      Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-07-21 23:25 -0700
        Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-07-22 01:21 -0700
          Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-07-22 15:00 -0700
          Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-07-29 18:31 +1000
            Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-29 03:36 -0500
              Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-08-01 18:00 +1000
                Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-08-01 03:33 -0500
      Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-07-22 01:20 -0700
        Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-07-24 17:56 +1000
      Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-22 03:49 -0500
  Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-22 11:40 +0000
    Re: RESIZE-FILE - mistakes ANS made "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-07-24 18:04 +1000

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