From: kezman AT nOsPaMbigfoot DOT com (Kieran Farrell)
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Subject: Re: best way to read selected data from a file?
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>You can use fread and fwrite to read from and write to random location from
>a file. But you need to specify the length you want to read if you use
>fread.

Hmm that's actually bad advice, his question was for text files. Once
you use fread or fwrite it automatically makes it a binary file.
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Kieran Farrell