Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 10:08:45 EDT From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) To: madmax AT prix1 DOT pr DOT infn DOT it Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu > In my source, I need to know the dimension of some files and to change it: in > Borland C I use the functions filelength() ans chsize().... How could I do > the same using DJGCC ? Try fseek() to end of file and ftell() to get the file size and fseek() followed by ftruncate() and fclose() to change the size.