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> From: "Vermin" <ratspl AT hotmail DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:50:41 +0200
> 
> How can you get the length of a file opened using "fopen" ???

If you don't care about portability, try "filelength(fileno(fp))",
where `fp' is a pointer to the FILE object returned by `fopen'.  If
you do care about portability, use `fstat'.

In any case, if the file is open for writing, you might need to call
fflush and fsync, before calling either of these two functions, to get
the up-to-date info.