From: "Ingo Ruhnke" <ruhnke AT owl-online DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How to get file size?
Date: 30 Sep 1997 20:09:09 GMT
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A. Sinan Unur <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu> schrieb
> Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> > This returns me the number of bytes of the file, but the number of 
> > chars is a little bit smaller, because of the <LF><CR>.
> >

> i wouldn't think so... at least not without reading in the whole file
> first. what is the problem with reserving space for a few extra bytes?

Another question, what is the return value of fread(), I think it is the
size of the part of the file, but with the <CR> or without them? Maybe this
could be the solution for my problem.