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Truncate file at a position
Hi again Having read through the documentation more thoroughly, it does indeed seem there is no standard way to make sure a direct access file is exactly N bytes long. I'll go with a short C function and some preprocessing directives for posix/win32/others. -
Truncate file at a position
Hi I'm writing what should be a portable Fortran library in Fortran 77. One of the routines should shorten a (direct access) file. For example, if a file is 100 bytes long, you should be able to throw away the last 10 bytes. In gfortran, I can open a file with record length 1, read record N... -
Get binary file size in fortran (a solution)
In thread214-1248457, guillaume asked how to find the size of a binary file in Fortran. I had excactly the same problem, but could not find a portable solution to it on the internet, so I post mine here in the hope that Google will list it. I made a binary search, using that the READ statement...
