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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Quick Directory Size
Keywords: HELP PLEASE TOS
Message-ID: <975@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 17:31:17 GMT
References: <305@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <305@hydra.gatech.EDU> iadt2tg@prism.gatech.EDU (Terry O. Greenlaw) writes:
|What is the quickest way to find out the total byte size of all files
|in the current subdirectory? I need the size to do the equivalent of
|a "ls -l", and I'd rather not add up the individual file sizes. 

As far as I know TOS only has a call to get the size (used and unused)
of a device (my handbook says: GEMDOS 0x36, Get Disk Free Space; my
compiler calls it : Dfree()). So probably summing up the sizes is the
only way to go (correct me if I'm wrong).

I wrote once a UNIX style du; du -s gives you the number of blocks used
by all files in the current directory (recursively); du -a gives the
block usage for each file individually too. If that's what you want I
could check it out and submit it to the sources / binaries groups.
You can try to outperform this by reading the directory sector(s), but
I doubt if it's worth the effort.
Anyone interested send me fanmail.

	Leo.