(Read-only) The EIFBYTES option holds the number of bytes read by the most recent IMPORT (EIF) command or written by the most recent EXPORT (EIF) command.
Example 5-27 Finding Out the Number of Bytes
To find out how many bytes of information were exported to an EIF file when you exported the dimensions of the demo workspace, you use the following statements.
LIMIT name TO OBJ(TYPE) EQ 'DIMENSION' EXPORT ALL TO EIF FILE 'myfile.eif' SHOW EIFBYTES
The SHOW statement produces the following output.
2,038