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From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander)
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Subject: Re: FILE I/O
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Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 07:11:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 14 07:11:03 1987
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Keywords: Mark Williams C, Fseek, fseek
Summary: or you can try this...

Preston Bannister and Matt talk about (to my mind, d*mned baroque) ways
to get the size of a file in the context of the MWC programming environment.

Try stat().  That's what it's for, among other things.  It also works on
Un*x, which to my mind is a far nicer thing to have compatability with than
mushdos.  One trap you are ignoring is: what if the file is a directory?
Nice to have it's attributes, perhaps?

hmmpf grump mutter. (its 5 am and my code *still* doesn't work.  Someone
must pay, and as luck would have it, you two win...)

Ross Alexander @ Athabasca University