if i remember the man pages correctly, the file is truncated when it's
opened for writing.
                rob

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
>
> Some programs may close the previous file, and open a new file.
> When the new file is the same as previous, I guess the file gets
> deleted first (unless some weird options are used in open).
> 
> Juhana
> 

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