Re: [MacPerl] Determining free disk space

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 8:09 -0400 1999.10.11, schinder@pobox.com wrote:
>You could use File::Find to laboriously walk the tree and total up the
>size of every file it found.  But if I were you, I'd be hunting
>through "Inside Macintosh" and the Mac Toolbox pods with Shuck to find
>the call it uses to give you the total disk usage when you "command-I"
>a disk.  That seems to be instantaneous, even on a netatalk mounted
>disk on the Linux machine.  Then, if MacPerl gives you access to that
>routine, the problem is solved.

If you do not find the routine in the toolbox, let us know what it is, and
maybe someone can code it up and supply it.

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