On 14 Dec 11, at 23:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > > I wonder how to obtain the size of an file on disk. The only function I > > could > > find so far is FileSize, which requires an open File, but nothing for an > > file > > name :-( > > > > ATM FileSize(TEXT) would help, too, but FileSize only accepts an FILE, not > > TEXT :-( > > > > FpFStat() seems unavailable on Windows :-( > > > > FindFirst may be usable, but is very clumsy for this simple request. > > Nevertheless, it is the only option. > > For example FileAge also calls FindFirst.
I don't think that it's really the only option in general - at least DOS-like platforms (DOS, OS/2, MS Windows) usually retrieve the size by a Seek API call specifying to seek end of the file and retrieving the current file position out of that. Actually, it's somewhat surprising for me to see that System.FileSize is implemented using fpStat under Unix platforms rather than using fpLSeek (which should be the equivalent to the API calls used under other platforms if I understand it correctly). FileAge is a different story from this point of view. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
