Subj : Re: newbie question [C language]
To   : comp.programming
From : CTips
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 08:35 pm

Alan Balmer wrote:
> And fstat() is not a standard function anyway.

fstat() *is* a standard function - its part of the POSIX standard, and 
is available on pretty much every hosted platform.

> The standard specifies that ftell returns long int.

Use ftello(), which returns an off_t, instead.

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