On , Jasen Betts (3:640/350{at}fidonet) wrote: 

 TT> Sure. But the whole matter is a bit academical. Do you know of any
 TT> implementations that don't support SEEK_END ? (I suspect that such     
 TT> implementations probably don't have any reliable method of detecting   
 TT> end of file, so the getc()/fread() approach will probably fail as well)

 > how about CP/M which only knows filesize to the block-number (ICBW) and 
 > flags the EOF in text files with a '\032' (ctrl-z)

Jasen...

  OTOH, is there an ANSI-C compiler for CP/M? If the answer is no, which
TTBOMK is true, then there's no point to an ANSI-compliant file size
function in that environment.
 


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