file size

[Paul Hibbert]

Mike,

That's just what I thought, but it doesn't agree with the actual file size shown in the finder, dividing by 1000 does agree with the finder.

It appears this depends on whether the system uses Binary or Decimal calculations, it seems Apple use Decimal.

Paul

On Sep 22, 2014, at 5:28 PM, mikedoub at gmail.com wrote:

> ‎To be technically correct divide by 1024.  
> 
> Mike
> 
>   Original Message  
> From: larry at significantplanet.org
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 8:21 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Reply To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: file size
> 
> Thanks Paul and Alex and Richard,
> 
> I ended up using Paul's code:
> on mouseUp
> answer file "?"
> put "binfile:" & it into tFile
> put the length of URL tFile / 1000 & "KB" into fld "myResultField"
> end mouseUp
> 
> It works just great!
> Larry
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Hibbert" <paulhibbert at mac.com>
> To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: file size
> 
> 
>> Larry,
>> 
>> Try:
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>> answer file "?"
>> put "binfile:" & it into tFile
>> put the length of URL tFile / 1000 & "KB" into fld "myResultField"
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> On Sep 22, 2014, at 2:29 PM, larry at significantplanet.org wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I know I can use:
>>> put the files into field "Current Files"
>>> 
>>> to get the size of a file (in bytes), but is there any way to use "answer 
>>> file" or some other way to get the size of just one specific file?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Larry
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