SYNOPSIS string read_bytes(string file, int start, int number) DESCRIPTION Reads a given amount of bytes from file. If is not given or 0, the file is read from the beginning, else from the th byte on. If is negative, it is counted from the end of the file. is the number of bytes to read. 0 or negative values are possible, but not useful. If would be outside the actual size of the file, 0 is returned instead of a string. SEE ALSO read_file(E), write_bytes(E), write_file(E)