On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, der Mouse wrote:

> Try compiling with -Wformat.

Ah, that explains things! :-)
 
> It'll do what you expect if you make it (int)sbuf.st_size - or if you

 
> If you were to use it with a file >2G in size, of course, using int
> won't DTRT on the sparc.  But that seems unlikely for /etc/hosts.

You are quite correct, it was just a test as I'm trying to get nntpd to work. And it was having trouble with the reading in of the active file.

Cheers

Steve