Subj : Re: newbie question [C language]
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Thu Jun 30 2005 03:20 pm

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:08:06 -0500, osmium wrote
(in article <3ii95nFlnl7mU1@individual.net>):

> "Fred_NacH" writes:
> 
>> I was wondering, how to retrieve the size/length of a file by only using 
>> the ansi functions...
> 
> This one often causes a lot of controversy, some people say there is a 
> (usually unnamed) system on which it won't work or at least there *could 
> have been* a system on which it wouldn't work if such a system had been 
> built.
> 
> Open the file in *binary* mode, seek to end of file, and use ftell() to see 
> where you are.  If you like acrimony and pedantry, look around on Usenet for 
> these discussions which flare up from time to time. 

I wonder if you have ever tried it on fat binaries under OS X.  
I suspect not.


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