On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Don Guinn wrote:
> So how does 1!:0 get the file size for files open to other applications? It
> would be nice if bigfiles could use the same technique.
I guess it read the inode rather than the file itself. Dos dir can be
use to read the file size.
load 'task'
shell 'dir bigfile'
and parse the output. Of course it will be much easier in Linux.
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