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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: binary data files
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Date: 4 May 89 13:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    May  4 08:39:00 1989



>MS-DOS has exact filesizes in bytes, and a standard OS call to retrieve
>a file's size in bytes.  The poster may have been thinking of CP/M,
>but CP/M is not MS-DOS.


Yes, but that size is the same as the number of characters returned
by fgetc only if the file is binary. Not generally so if it is text.

Doug McDonald