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How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

It's easy to append bytes to the end of a file: Just open it for writing, seek to the end, and start writing. It's also easy to delete bytes from the end of a file: Seek to the point where you want the file to be truncated and call . But how do you delete bytes from the beginning of a file? You can't, but you sort of can, even though you can't...

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