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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
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Subject: Re: how to get file size (in bytes) ???
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greid@.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes:
>What is the appropriate incantation to determine the size of a file?
>I have been digging through the File Manager documentation and such,
>and all I can come up with is something like this, which doesn't seem
>to work:
>
>	FSOpen ( filename, refnum );
>	GetEOF ( refnum, &longsize );

try	FSOpen( filename, volnum, &refnum);
where volnum can be 0 if the file's in the application directory or
in the System File, or copied from the SFReply record if you're using
the Standard File Package.  Make sure that filename is a Pascal string,
like "\pfoo" instead of "foo", and if you want to be safe, check for
a non-zero return value from FSOpen() to see if you got an error.

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