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Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File

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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 11/10/12 14:08, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> > Keith Thompson<kst-u@mib.org>  writes:
> >> Alain Ketterlin<alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>  writes:
> >>> Keith Thompson<kst-u@mib.org>  writes:
> >
> >>>> and what is "level 2"?
> >>>
> >>> Unixism. Just ignore it if it hurts you.
> >>
> >> If you're referring to section 2 of the manual (ftell(2),
> >> documentation available via "man 2 ftell"), I've never heard of
> >> that being referred to as "level 2".
> >
> > OK now you have. I didn't think it was that hard to understand, given
> > that lseek was two words away.
> 
> I didn't understand it either.  I've never seen the expression used in
> the context of man pages.

Ditto, clearly our presumably-more-than-two decades of unix experience
are all for nought.  And it's not even being compact, as the expression
used is way more characters than the *absolutely standard* notation
which Keith followed up with, viz. ftell(2).

Looks like we've got a new level 2 usenet poster, IYKWIM...

Phil
-- 
Regarding TSA regulations:
How are four small bottles of liquid different from one large bottle?
Because four bottles can hold the components of a binary liquid explosive,
whereas one big bottle can't. -- camperdave responding to MacAndrew on /.

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Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File felix <ckpradip@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 23:09 -0800
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File "Where's all the China Blue food?" <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-08 23:26 -0800
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 06:56 -0500
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File felix <ckpradip@gmail.com> - 2012-11-12 22:23 -0800
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-13 07:27 -0500
        Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File felix <ckpradip@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 01:52 -0800
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-19 08:09 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-09 08:24 -0500
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-10 06:06 -0800
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-11-10 15:12 +0000
        Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-11 08:40 +1300
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-11-10 20:36 +0000
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-10 10:13 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-11-09 15:16 +0000
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Mark Bluemel <mark_bluemel@pobox.com> - 2012-11-09 15:56 +0000
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 11:01 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Greg Martin <greg@softsprocket.com> - 2012-11-09 08:59 -0800
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-11-09 19:42 +0100
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 11:29 -0800
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-11-09 20:47 +0100
        Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 12:33 -0800
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-11-10 02:08 +0100
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2012-11-09 18:33 -0800
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2012-11-10 02:58 +0000
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2012-11-09 23:29 -0800
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-10 06:09 -0800
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-10 17:46 +1300
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-10 22:20 -0500
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-11-12 14:01 +0200
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2012-11-10 22:01 +0000
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 22:14 -0500
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 19:24 -0800
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 23:30 -0500
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-10 08:32 -0500
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-11-10 17:42 +0000
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-10 15:19 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 11:34 -0800

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