>>> What OS was that, BTW? (it wasn't Unix or Win32; perhaps Mac?)
>>
>>Yes, Mac.
>
> Actually, it wasn't the MacOS, which certainly provides file truncation
> through its native API, but rather the Metrowerks Codewarrior stdio
> libraries.
>
> -- Duane

The ANSI C Standard Library Specification doesn't have a way to truncate a
file -- because some OTHER old OS didn't have that ability.

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