GETATTR

Action

Returns the file Attribute.

 

 

Syntax

bFileAttribut = GETATTR([sFile])

 

 

Remarks

bFileAttribut	Numeric variable which is assigned with the file attribute.
sFile	The name of the file (no wildcard) to get the attribute from. You may also omit the name in which case the file will be used previous found by the DIR() function.

 

This functions returns the DOS file attributes. A file can have multiple attributes.

 

Return value	DOS Attribute
1	Read Only
2	Hidden
4	System File
8	Volume Label
16	Sub Directory
32	Archive
64,128	Reserved

 

  A file could have an attribute of 3 (hidden+ read only)

See also

INITFILESYSTEM , OPEN , CLOSE, FLUSH , PRINT, LINE INPUT, LOC, LOF , EOF , FREEFILE , SEEK , BSAVE , BLOAD , KILL ,DISKFREE , DISKSIZE , GET , PUT, FILEDATE , FILETIME , FILEDATETIME , DIR , FILELEN, WRITE , INPUT

 

Partial Example

'open the file in BINARY mode
Print Getattr("somefile.bin")

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