From: HalfEmpty
Subject: Portable File stat utilities
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:56:27 +0000
Message-ID: <3cee42a9-4454-421b-8805-70d81a47bcd5@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com>

Is there portable file utilities for things like looking up file size?

I have been looking but maybe I'm missing the obvious.

• Re: Portable File stat utilities Pascal J. Bourguignon
  • Re: Portable File stat utilities HalfEmpty

From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Portable File stat utilities
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:55:14 +0000
Message-ID: <877i2oporh.fsf@galatea.local>

HalfEmpty <··············@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there portable file utilities for things like looking up file size?

FILE-LENGTH

> I have been looking but maybe I'm missing the obvious.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/c_files.htm
The obvious is that some file functions are in the stream section:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/c_stream.htm
(because they only work on open files).

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__Pascal Bourguignon__

From: HalfEmpty
Subject: Re: Portable File stat utilities
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:33:20 +0000
Message-ID: <ea0730c9-fd63-4d44-a234-039079946d5f@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com>

Thanks. That was obvious.