Subject: Re: Suggestion: inclusion of the truncate(1) utility into the tree
To: Alexander Langer <alex@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/21/2000 19:56:35 
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| FreeBSD recently imported a truncate(1) utility into their
| src-tree, which is a command-line frontend to truncate(2).

Why is not ``dd'' sufficient?

--jhawk