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On 3/30/2014 7:35 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> LineNumberReader takes a Reader
> Channels.newReader takes a ReadableByteChannel (FileChannel)


Once you have a Reader, using a BufferReader would probably be more 
clear to a maintainer, assuming line number counting isn't required.

But I agree with Andreas that RandomAccessFile seems to have been left 
an orphan when the NIO stuff came out.  I can't figure out a way to get 
there.