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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers?
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In article <199509200444.VAA14075@phaeton.artisoft.com>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>> > 8-).  The complaint isn't
>> > that you can't work around what is effectively a loss of information, but
>> > that you have to do so.

>> What information loss is that?

>How many records are in the file from stat information.

And how is this information *lost*? Your code works just fine regardless
of the character set used.