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> I don't think there's a function that returns the filelength of a file, with
> AmigaDOS.  But I need an equivalent...how do you determine the length of a file
> given only the file handle (eg from an Open)?  There must be a way to find the
> associated file lock, as one is created when the file is opened (shared /
> exclusive)...right?  Then you can Examine the FileInfoBlock and get the file's
> length from the fibSize field.
> 
>     ie    size_t  filelength(int handle)
> 
> I want a function that doesn't require knowing the filename...or do I need 2.0?
> 
> Thanks.

   I needed such a function once before, when porting the UNIX compress
utility to the Amiga.   I you are using Lattice C you can you the lseek(2)
library call like this:

        off_t  sz;
        ...
        sz = lseek( fd, 0, SEEK_END);