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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: EOF in TP4?
Keywords: The EOF function in TP3/4 is designed for use with text files.  Turbo Pascal
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Date: 8 Aug 88 22:31:22 GMT
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In article <381@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> gordon@eecea.UUCP (Dwight W. Gordon) writes:
}will need to use all four parameters for the blockread.  If you set the block
}size to one (RESET(file,1)), you can determine the size of the file to the
}character.

If all you want to do is determine the file's size, use longfilesize (TP3/4)
or filesize (TP4).  You want longfilesize in TP3 because filesize returns an
integer, and is thus quite limited in the sizes it can report....  TP4's
filesize returns a long integer.

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