>Squeak file streams don't truncate the file, because some silly OS did
>not provide that functionality. The same silly OS has no "flush" facility
>either, so Squeak does not have this.

Ah, flush is a new primitive in 3.0 for *most* OS's, windows/mac. 
Can't speak for Unix yet.
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