Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 13:11:50 -0800 (GMT)
From: "Orlando A. Andico" <orly AT netra1 DOT dilnet DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Luke Steele <luke DOT steele AT bigfoot DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Determining size of file.
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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Luke Steele wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to convert a program I've written under DJGPP to run in a
> UNIX enviroment using the gcc compiler.  I thought there would be few
> difficulties, but in fact I'm encountering quite a few, one of which
> involves determining the size of a file.  At the moment I'm using the
> filelength function, but the UNIX compiler doesn't seem to support
> this function.
> 
> Does anyone know a (reasonably fast) way of determining the size of a
> file under UNIX?

fseek (fp, 0, SEEK_END);
file_length = ftell (fp);