Printing a file backwards

[Dave Horsfall]

> with the lines in the reverse order.  It 'fgetc()'s its way through
> the file to count the number of characters, then backs up, spiting
> 
> scott dawkins
> {hplabs|ucbvax}!hpda!sdawkins
> 
> 	/* find out how many characters are in the file */
> 	for (count = 0; (c = fgetc(in_file)) != EOF; ++count)
> 		;
> 	--count;
> 
What's wrong with "stat" ?  Or isn't that "portable"?
(Yes - I know, KRE - we don't export net.sources back to the yanks.
This is a sincere request for information no matter who can answer it.)
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