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Subject: Re: Stat(1) for filesize
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:53:17 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > You have emphasized to use stat(1) for filesize. But I have used other 
  > method such as 'Fseek' to know the filesize. Is that ok? Or should I 
  > change it?

Anything equivalent would be fine.  Please make sure that the
value it gives is correct and that it also works for directories.
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