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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 21:56:53 +0200
From: Fredrick Backman <fredrick DOT backman AT pmail DOT net>
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Subject: Re: file size
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Greetings Darren,

Try the C system call stat() which not only gives you the file size but
also when the file was last modified etc. It takes two arguments: a
string (the filename) and the address to a structure (struct stat *).
The structure field you want is called st_size, which gives the size in
bytes.  Example:

struct stat statbuf;

stat("hello.dat", &statbuf);
printf("The size of hello.dat is %d\n", statbuf.st_size);


Hope that works :-)

I know stat() gives more info if you use it on a UNIX system, and I
haven't honestly tried it myself in DOS but I can't see why it shouldn't
work (some fields in the structure will be useless in DOS but don't
worry about that now).

cheers
Fred

Darren Noble wrote:

> Does anyone know how to get the size of a file in DJGPP?
>
> --
> Linux Rules
>
> Darren 'The' Noble

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