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.

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

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