From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: filelength(): POSIX or not
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:18:05 GMT
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:19:45 +1300, "Edmund Horner"
<ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> wrote:

>While looking for a substitute "filelength()" for use under Linux, I came
>upon the source for the DJGPP filelength():
>
>src/libc/posix/sys/stat/filelen.c
>
>Does this mean that filelength() _is_ a POSIX function?  According to its
>info page, it's "not POSIX".

here's your substitute:

fopen() the file in "rb" mode, fseek() to the end, and read the
length with ftell().  This is ANSI so it should work on any full
ANSI C compiler.

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