Yes, knowing the link's size is useless.
But that's what `ls -l` shows.
And there's a problem if the the target is a dir or even a partition.
Perhaps this is a problem for Panelizing:--
<IF target is type:file THEN show target-size
  ELSE show zero>
I suspect the implementation is available via google
== Chris Glur.

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> Hello there,
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> is there a way, an option or whatever I missed (using mc 4.8.1), that
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> size in files list? That matters in case of regular files of course.
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