package com.ronsoft.books.nio.channels; import java.nio.channels.FileChannel; import java.io.RandomAccessFile; import java.io.IOException; /** * Test file pointer manipulation between FileChannel and RandomAccessFile * objects. * * Created Feb 2002 * @author Ron Hitchens (ron@ronsoft.com) * @version $Id: FilePointer.java,v 1.1 2002/02/20 03:16:33 ron Exp $ */ public class FilePointer { public static void main (String [] argv) throws IOException { RandomAccessFile randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile (argv [0], "r"); randomAccessFile.seek (1000); FileChannel fileChannel = randomAccessFile.getChannel(); // This will print "1000" System.out.println ("file pos: " + fileChannel.position()); randomAccessFile.seek (500); // This will print "500" System.out.println ("file pos: " + fileChannel.position()); fileChannel.position (200); // This will print "200" System.out.println ("file pos: " + randomAccessFile.getFilePointer()); } }