[Cialug] Efficiently removing the beginning of a file

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Monday 21 May 2007 11:33, Dave Weis wrote:
>On Mon, 21 May 2007, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> But i guess what i'm curious
>> about is the general problem; if there is a large file and you need
>> to remove some small number of bytes from the beginning of it, how
>> is that best accomplished?
>
>It depends on what you are doing with the file. If it's being used in
> a program that you have written, just use a seek/fseek equivalent for
> that language. It should take basically 0 additional time.

In my particular case, the file was a movie i had downloaded but which 
accidentally had a few kB of HTML tacked onto the beginning of the 
file. So i needed the file to have the HTML removed so a player 
application would recognize it.

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