AmigaActive (524/2347)

From:Dave Naylor
Date:8 Mar 2001 at 13:29:44
Subject:Re: How Big?

Hiya Neil

On 08-Mar-01, you wrote about "Re: [amigactive] How Big?"

>NW> Now under Opus I'd just do a getsizes command. In amigados however I
>NW> was stumped. I was playing around with the List and Dir commands for
>NW> ages with no joy.

>NW "List All", multiply blocks result by the information from C:Info.

Yeah but Info only works on devices, not dirs a few layers down. Like I say
I resorted to using getdir() and statef() in arexx to sort it out.

>NW Not user friendly. OS3.5 has a hidden dir size button in the WB icon
>NW information window (click on "Size").

Yeah? /me checks......, erm, where? Perhaps it's coz I'm on Dopus on this
machine I'm on now?

Cheerio



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