> 
> >  I have a large file that I want to strip an specified
> >number of bytes off the end of... I figure I want to
> >seek back that many bytes from the end and put in an
> >eof... but I can't think of how to do this now...
> 
> http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc/truncate.html


  Ahhh! I've never used that, looks perfect though, thanks!

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