Re: [MacPerl] -s File Test Operator

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 03.21 -0400 1998.07.21, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>I discovered for myself, and now see in the book errata, that -s returns
>the size of the data fork and not the entire file. Is this a bug or a
>feature? It seems that the expected behavior is to return the size of the
>whole file.

I'd just call it a "behavior".  At worst, I suppose you could call it a
misfeature or poor decision, because it was probably intentional.

Matthias, is there any reason not to change this to do data+resource forks?

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