info-cpm (12/15/82)
>From CAL.MIT-OZ@BRL Sun Dec 12 23:37:19 1982
Sender: CAL.MIT-OZ@BRL
To: Lauren@Ucla-Security
Cc: Rizzi@Usc-Isib, INFO-CPM@BRL
Via: Mit-Mc; 11 Dec 82 2:17-EST
Via: Brl; 11 Dec 82 2:51-EST
Via: Brl-Bmd; 11 Dec 82 2:58-EST
There is a lack of a feature in CPM that I hope exists in MARC: It is
impossible to return to the disk operating system any part of a file that
is no longer being used. For example, one can't cause a file to be
shortened by returning all allocated disk blocks after a particular point
in the file. Does MARC have a system call to do this?
If anyone knows an easy fix for this in CPM, please let me in on it.
Thanx -Cliff