BB> Strictly speaking Robin is right, but if you are only interested
 BB> in MSDos,  and have a compiler which supports language extensions, then
 BB> filesize(),  fstat() or stat() will do it, but these are not part of
 BB> the ANSI standard. 
 BB> If you wish to stick to the ANSI standard, you must fopen( a
 BB> stream) then  fseek() to the end of the file, and either start your
 BB> reading from there, or  perform an fgetpos() or ftell() and use the
 BB> information so obtained. The  interesting thing is what you don't
 BB> mention - how your friend extends the exe  file length without messing
 BB> up the exe header. :-) 

   Couldn't one just open the .EXE file for a binary append, then tack 
   the music data on the end?  This would ater the file size, so the 
   EOF check wouldn't work, but it wouldn't mess up the header.
   
... Backup not found: [A]bort [R]etry [P]anic.
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