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Subject: Re: Turbo C file size routine
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 17:36:00 EST
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/* Written by masscomp.UUCP!alang in comp.sys.ibm.pc */
> I'm looking for a way to determine the size of a text file from within Turbo
> C. Determining the size of a binary file is trivial, using the stat call,
> but if I open the file in text mode, stat returns the same value, which
> is now incorrect (ie. CR/LF count as two characters in the count, although
> are read as a single newline character. So far, I've been opening the file
> in text mode and running the following loop, but this is slow:
> 
> i=0;
> while (getc(fp) >= 0) i++;
> 
> Is there a faster way to do this?
> 
> Alan Groupe
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	How about trying something like:

--------
|	#define MAXSIZE 512
|
|	char temp_buf[MAXSIZE];
|
|	.
|	.
|	.
|
|	i=0;
|	while( (i+=read(fp,temp_buf,MAXSIZE) )>0);
---------

	According to the Turbo C Reference manual, the function 'read'
returns the number of bytes read and doesn't count ^Zs or ^Ms.

	Hope this helps...


                           Rich Neswold

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