From: SMTP%"[log in to unmask]" 13-DEC-1999 21:11:51.03
> Endfile is more likely to be useful when you do something like
> read to partway through a file and then write an endfile with the
> intent of truncating the rest of the file. (Though I'm not at
> all confident how portably that will really work in practice.
> It "should", but that doesn't mean it necessarily will. No I haven't
> tested - its not in the lexicon of practices I tend to use).
If ENDFILE is not portable in this case, what good is it at all?
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