Filesize() Function

[Fairlight]

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On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Brian White thus spoke:
> did my post not make it to the list?
> 
> On 5/13/20 1:19 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> > Then that's literally "interrupted system call".
> > 
> > https://www-numi.fnal.gov/offline_software/srt_public_context/WebDocs/Errors/unix_system_errors.html
> > 
> > Technically, this should just involve a call to stat() internally, so
> > I'm not sure how it should be failing unless there are issues with
> > the filesystem.
> > 
> > If it were a network share, I suppose I could see it happening if the
> > connection flaked out.
> > 
> > m->
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:41:07PM -0400, William J. McEachran via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> > > msgbox ERRNAME( abs(aa) )
> > > will tell you the OS error on a negative number
> > > --
> > > Bill McEachran
> > > bill.mceachran at gmail.com     289-356-4406
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 10:19, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list <
> > > filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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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