From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: length of file (baffling me)
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Bas Hamstra <bas DOT hamstraNOSPAM AT wxs DOT nl> wrote in message
news:7p51mk$qg2$1 AT reader1 DOT wxs DOT nl...
> fileno
> >macro.
> >
> >printf("File length: %i", filelength(fileno(fp)));
>
> Man, can''t you try to be a bit more friendly? Be nice! Just answer the
> question and don't go "if you had done this, you would have known that".

I don't think he was being unfriendly at all. He helped you with the
problem.
You really should read the docs first though.
Typing this would've saved 10k of newsgroups :-) :

info libc a filelength

which says

"This function returns the size, in bytes, of a file whose handle is
specified in the argument FHANDLE.  To get the handle of a file opened
by *Note fopen:: or *Note freopen::, you can use *Note fileno:: macro."

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