On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 February 2001 11:01, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> > Squeak file streams don't truncate the file, because some silly OS did
> > not provide that functionality.
> 
> That's no reason to limit Squeak, is it? There will always be deficient OS 
> platforms out there that have to have things emulated.
> 
> If we passed an extra argument to the file open primitive that specified an 
> open mode (truncate, open existing, etc.) then OS's that didn't provide 
> low-level truncate capability on file opens could just do a delete of the 
> existing file first if necessary.

Sounds good.

> What OS was that, BTW? (it wasn't Unix or Win32; perhaps Mac?)

Yes, Mac.

> > The same silly OS has no "flush" facility
> > either, so Squeak does not have this.
> 
> There is an sqFileFlush() routine, and a primitive that calls it.

One of the real advances of 3.0 :)

-- Bert