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From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wanted: Filelength() function
Message-ID: <caw.2303@miroc.Chi.IL.US>
Date: 1 Aug 90 18:17:53 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

This is easy to do.  After opening the file, do a Seek() to an offset of zero
from the end of the file.  Then do another Seek() to offset zero from
current and the return value is the size of the file.  Granted, this is a
little more overhead than having a Lock() and doing an Examine(), but it is
a lot easier.

-=> CAW

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