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> Either count in blocks, or use 'long long'.  You can use 'off_t' if you
> prefer, as that may be a better match with lseek().
>
long long.. I'll have a play.
 
> > Which reminds me, freebsd's GNU tar apparently uses an "int" type for
> > tot_written, that doesn't look like it cant count over 32k bytes.
> 
> File a PR 8)
> 

I might. :)

Thanks to those who replied,

Adrian.