From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-03-26T06:49:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Read only a few bytes from file

toulax@gmail.com wrote:
> This works, however it still reads the entire page but only displays
> the certain amount of bytes. Is it possible to only load the amount of
> bytes that I specify?
>
> Say for instance that I have a 10mb file, how do I get the first few
> bytes of this file without having to read it entirely first?
>   
Specify the number of bytes you want to the read method. Because of 
buffering read may actually read more bytes than you want, but it won't 
be all 10mb.