.\"reads a contiguous series of bytes from a file into a string .DT read_bytes Discworld driver help read_bytes Name .SI 5 read_bytes() - reads a contiguous series of bytes from a file into a string .EI Synopsis .SI 5 string read_bytes(string path, int start, int length); .EI Description .SP 5 5 This function reads 'length' bytes beginning at byte # 'start' in the file named 'path'. The bytes are returned as a string. Note that (start + length) must not be past the end of the file or else read_bytes will fail. .EP See also .SI 5 read_file(3), write_bytes(3) .EI