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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News missing Lines: header
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Date: 21 Jul 89 02:08:36 GMT
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	<1989Jul21.001122.4986@utstat.uucp>
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In-reply-to: geoff@utstat.uucp's message of 21 Jul 89 00:11:22 GMT

In article <1989Jul21.001122.4986@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:

   ... Lines: headers are a waste of bytes (a byte count is usually what's
   wanted and it can be obtained much more reliably via fstat(2) or "ls
   -l"), ...

Unless you're accessing the news spool via NNTP, in which case you're out
of luck.  Perhaps XHDR can be modified to special-case a pseudo Bytes: header
and return the number of bytes in the file?
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