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Old 11-17-2010, 03:30 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Bad Astronaut View Post
This is a just a guess, but in ASCII text files each character is one byte so you may be able to just add up the characters in the html.
I'm afraid not. Positions count is in units of 128 bytes in the compressed file.

It's a little like asking "how can I tell, from my typewritten manuscript, which page of the printed book a given word is going to end up on?". The answer is "you can't, and why would you want to?".
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