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Jasen Betts wrote in a message to TOM TORFS:

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)

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

Like I said, on such systems the getc() approach will fail as well, because
the stream must be opened in binary mode for the return value of ftell() to
be guaranteed to be a byte count, and this will mean the EOF won't be
detected.

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

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