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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Re: How to find *real* file sizes in AOS/VS...?
Message-ID: <116@harald.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 16:11:16 GMT
References: <1702@murdu.oz>
Organization: RUC - Roskilde University Center, Denmark
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I think it's impossible, but you can get pretty close by DUMP'ing the
files to disk and then check the size of the dumpfile. The overhead is
only for the filename, the ACL, time and date etc.

      /|  /       Postmaster@RUC.dk               /^^^\     .----------------.
     / | /        DG-passer@RUC.dk               { o_o }    | SIMULA does it |
    /--|/         jba@meza.RUC.dk                 \ o / --> | with CLASS     |
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