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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Determining the length of a file on MS-DOS
Message-ID: <11470037@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 88 23:01:19 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Do a stat() call to get existence and size of a file without actually trying 
to open() it.