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tellg() for large filesizes

Hi all,

I'm trying to retrieve the filesize of a file which size is larger then
4G. Old C functions are insufficient for they return a long. The
standard c++ methods tellg() and seekg() also doesn't seem to work for
these sizes.
Do you know how I can resolve these kind of problems?

regards, Philippe.

Sep 5 '05 #1
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ph************* @intec.ugent.be wrote:
Hi all,

I'm trying to retrieve the filesize of a file which size is larger then
4G. Old C functions are insufficient for they return a long. The
standard c++ methods tellg() and seekg() also doesn't seem to work for
these sizes.
Do you know how I can resolve these kind of problems?
Use operating system dependant filesystem functions.

regards, Philippe.

Sep 5 '05 #2
Hi,

Usually for 64 bit systems (I assume you are on one of those) there is
something like fstat for 64 bit. With that you should be able to get the
right file size.

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Regards, Ron AF Greve

http://moonlit.xs4all.nl

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Hi all,

I'm trying to retrieve the filesize of a file which size is larger then
4G. Old C functions are insufficient for they return a long. The
standard c++ methods tellg() and seekg() also doesn't seem to work for
these sizes.
Do you know how I can resolve these kind of problems?

regards, Philippe.

Sep 6 '05 #3

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