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From: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wanted: Filelength() function
Message-ID: <forgeas.1537@swinjm.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 90 13:44:56 GMT
References: <2671@mindlink.UUCP>
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In article <2671@mindlink.UUCP> a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang) writes:
>I don't think there's a function that returns the filelength of a file, with
>AmigaDOS.  But I need an equivalent...how do you determine the length of a file
>given only the file handle (eg from an Open)?  There must be a way to find the
>[...]
>Thanks.

Alexander Livshits showed me this little trick, here it is:

int filelength( fh )
{
    Seek( fh, 0, OFFSET_END );
    return( Seek( fh, 0, OFFSET_BEGINNING ) );
}

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