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Re: Length of File Inquiry function needed [message #2905]

Tue, 11 October 1994 22:12

fskmjm
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Registered: November 1993

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In article <hahn.33.000F9BA9@hrz.th-darmstadt.de> hahn@hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Norbert Hahn) writes:

> Hi,

> I need a function to inquire the number of bytes in a file and I need to know
> the exact number. Knowing the number of blocks doesn't help much.

> Norbert Hahn
> University at Darmstadt
> Germany

Do the following:
filename=pickfile()
openr,lun,filename,/get
info=fstat(lun)
num_bytes=info.size ; here is the info you need
free_lun,lun

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