On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:10 -0400, Richard Lee wrote:
> There is no way to read say last 10 MB of the file or something? It's 
> very surprising why no such thing exists..
> 

No, it's not.

It is a text file, not a fixed-sized record fix.  There is no way to
compute where the lines of text start.

And with today's computers, 10 MB of text is trivial.


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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
    Shawn

When I was in college, my Karate instructor said,
"The first hundred are easy."
Since then, I discovered he'd lied.
Life's too big to describe in hundreds.


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