Kurt Kuzba wrote in a message to Tom Torfs:

[snip code that uses getc() to calculate size of file in case
implementation doesn't support SEEK_END]

 KK>    That could be done much faster in most cases with fread()    and
 KK> a good sized buffer, couldn't it?

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

(the reason for writing this small program was a discussion in c.l.c on
this subject; thought I'd share it with you as well)

greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be

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