filesize

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:53:40PM -0700, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> >From filepro's help file:
> "In a text file, it is possible that the value
> returned by FILESIZE() is not the same number of bytes
> that can be read from the file."
> 
> Is there someone out there that can shed a little more
> light on this subject?  Will opening the file in
> binary mode bypass this "possible" issue?

It should.

If you open a DOS text file in text mode, the read routines will
usually eat a CR-LF pair and return (in Unix) a '\n', so you'll lose
one character for each line.

Cheers,
-- jra
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