What modification will change this program so that it counts the number of bytes in a file?

A good answer might be:

(1) Initialize a long variable to zero. (2) Increment it in the loop body. (3) Print it out after the loop is exited.

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The abstract class InputStream
The readInt() method.
Problems with binary files.
Advantages of binary files.
Description of DataInputStream.
Reading until end-of-file.
Nested try{} blocks.
input and output of bytes
FileNotFoundException

The next chapter will discuss the File class and input and output of structured data.

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