Re: Where is function tell()

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:33:21 -0400

In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904081548430.2247-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>, Riley
Williams writes:
+-----
| > I am now unable to compile my programs which use the 'tell()'
| > function to get the position within a file.
|
| I thought it was ftell() that did that? Certainly, "man ftell" on this
| RedHat system gives full details...
+--->8

tell(fd) was an ancient and no longer supported function which was equivalent
to lseek(fd, 0L, 1).

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