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leibnizster@gmail.com - 07 Mar 2006 22:56 GMT

Hello,

I have a 4 GB file and I want to truncate it to, say, 3.8. Cany I do
something like seek to some byte in the file and then delete all the
bytes that come after that? If yes how?

Thanks

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leibnizster@gmail.com - 07 Mar 2006 23:26 GMT

if anyone cares, I used interop with the function:
SetEndOfFile()

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 08 Mar 2006 07:40 GMT

> if anyone cares, I used interop with the function:
> SetEndOfFile()

You didn't need to do that. Just use FileStream.SetLength.

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