> >> I'm trying to show the size of a file with ftell() and printf().
 > >> Something like:
 > >> printf("The file is %u bytes long", ftell(filename));
 > >> works ok until the file gets larger than 64k.

 > dn> RTFM, "%lu".

 > I read it, tried various things, but I can't work it out. %lu
 > doesn't work. It leaves that field blank. If I use %u it
 > works fine up to 64k then overflows.

 > This is QuickC for Windows in Ansi mode. If you reckon that
 > %lu definitely works could you post a quick and dirty program
 > which shows the size of a file using %lu and I'll compile it
 > on QuickC and see what happens.

It works.  The code above _should_ work just fine as is.

I assume that the appropriate header (stdio.h) is included in which ftell()
is prototyped?

david

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