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How can I start reading a file near the end, and not have to read all the bytes at the start too?

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How can I start reading a file near the end, and not have to read all the bytes at the start too?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=142234 Created: Sep 5, 2000 Modified: 2000-09-05 08:25:32.422 Author: John Zukowski (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7) Question originally posed by Jim Brady (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=142177 The RandomAccessFile class allows you to seek() to a certain position in a file and read from any spot in the file. Unfortunately, the class isn’t part of the IO streams hierarchies, so you can’t do things like buffering.