> 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.

RTFM, "%lu".


 > Then the
 > unsigned integer of %u is too small. Is there a way of
 > getting printf to handle the long integer, or do I have to
 > convert the number to a string first?

That's precisely what printf() does - converts types to ascii. :-)

    cheers,
    david

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