Emmitt,
Do you need to Browse to the File, Select it and get a filesize returned
to RBase or Enter the full pathname and get a filesize returned to RBase?
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmitt Dove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: getting file size
> That's what I do now, Larry ... was trying to find a way to accomplish the
> filesize determination without a temp table.
>
> Razzak: this is a file other than one of the .RB* files.
>
> > >It seems to me that I have seen a function call or UDF for Windows
R:Base
> > >that returns selected characteristics of a specified file. I am
> > >particularly interested in finding out the size of a specified file.
> >
> >Just send the output of DIR to a file, load it into a table, and parse
it.
> >There is an option to get a "raw" version of the DIR output without the
> >headers, suitable for loading.
> >--
> >Larry
> >
> >
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> Emmitt Dove
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> Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
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