Comment by nunobrito
11 days ago
We know in advance the size of the file, so just iterate 1000 bytes on each turn from the bottom until finding the start of the tree information.
I've done this before for reading/extracting files inside ISO images from browsers. It was fast and avoided need to download a whole 2.4GB ISO just to grab a few files inside.
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