Suppose I manipulate a file with:
open file "myfile"
And I may read any chunk from the file with:
seek to 100 in file "myfile"
read from file "myfile" for 100
The question is: how do I find out the current reading/writing position of
the file?
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OK, I know the "URL" is rather powerful on handling files:
I can use something like:
get char 100 to 200 of url ("file:myfile")
But it is slower on dealing with large files. It basically loads the entire
file onto RAM.
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And how do you find out the size of a file? I am using:
get length(url ("file:myfile"))
Again, Metacard loads the entire file onto RAM before it starts counting,
and took about 10 seconds to walkthrough a list of 600 files (various sizes)
on a Mac G4.
I remember the forthcoming enhanced files() command should provide file size
info as well - or just my illusion?
I know the unix/linux users enjoy the shell command with this, but...
Regards,
LiangTyan Fui
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