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Subject: [MacPerl] -s File Test Operator
From: online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:21:24 -0700
Newsgroups: mlist.mac-perl
Organization: MacTech Magazine

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.
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Jeff Clites                Online Editor           http://www.MacTech.com/
online@MacTech.com         MacTech Magazine
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