On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > Hi.. > > but how would you access a sequence file and tell it to start > > reading from somewhere *other* than the beginning? i mean, if i just > > type "cat /proc/rday", that will start at the beginning. > > > > how would i tell it to do otherwise? thanks. > > > Untested. Have you tried: > dd ... skip=<offset> ? never mind ... i just learned a *whole* new feature of sequence files that i wasn't aware of and is not documented anywhere i know of. i'll summarize later. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
