Filesize() Function

[Fairlight]

If they used the standard idiom of a negative version of errno, it means
interrupted system call.

Best guess:  You are testing files > 2GB.

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On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:18:58AM -0400, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Friends and filePro Experts,
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what it means when I do the following commands?
> 
> aa(8,.0)=Open([Name of file])
> 
> ab(8,.0)=filesize(aa)   'should report the filesize of the opened file and
> does most of the time.
> 
> But sometimes I get the value "-4" instead of a positive number of some
> kind.
> 
> I expect it might be an error of some kind and if a -4 is possible, can I
> expect other negative numbers?
> 
> I would appreciate any insight on this.  I am kind of assuming the file was
> not created or something bad like that happened.
> 
> Nancy Palmquist
> 
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