Reading/Deleting Last Line Of File

Jeffrey Massung massung at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 00:44:53 EST 2010



On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> Jeff,
> 
> This line:
> 
>> put the length of url "file:myfile.txt" into tEnd
> 
> Loads the entire file into memory in order to get its length.



That's a joke, right? :-(

A freakin' OS call could get that just by touching an I-Node. Please, God, tell me Rev was smart enough to do it the right way?

Jeff M.


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