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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
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Date: 8 Dec 1996 11:33:38 +0100
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dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes:

>Dunno what Sun is doing for that but HP has "ftello()" in 10.20 to handle
>64 bit filesizes.  I assume that's part of the large files summit changes.
>When longs go to 64 bits on Solaris and HP-UX respectively this kludge,
>along with many of the others, can go away.


Correct.  As others have pointed out, fsetpos/fgetpos are the preferred
interfaces.  

Casper
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