I'm running FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, GNU 2.72 C/C++ compiler. I want to know what function returns the length of a file. I could read each byte until I reach the end, but there's got to be a function. I've read so many manpages and looked through header files and I can't find it. I prefer doing it with a file descriptor rather than assocating it with a stream. Thanks to anybody who can help me. Mr. A

Hi Do something that looks like this. lseek would return what you want. Ananth. - #include #include int main() { int f1; /* get the file size */ f1=open("filename",O_RDONLY); printf("%d;\n",lseek(f1,0,SEEK_END)); close(f1); } --

Ananth, Thank you. That will do it. I was hoping that there was a function like the Borland getfilelength(). FYI: Using fseek is a little different. I spent many hours one day going crazy and I thought I had found a bug in my compiler. I found out that when reading & writing to a file when you are using fseek(), in between subsequent reads & writes, you have to perform fseek(), even if it is fseek(somefile, 0, 1). Then I read the explanation in The C Programming language. It's to be backwards compatible with older programs that used fseek(). That book could have saved me about 12 hours of poking around and major frustration. Thanks again, Mr. A