--- a/src/goodjava/lucene/logging/LogFile.java	Fri Apr 24 10:52:54 2020 -0600
+++ b/src/goodjava/lucene/logging/LogFile.java	Fri Apr 24 14:32:20 2020 -0600
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import goodjava.logging.Logger;
 import goodjava.logging.LoggerFactory;
+import goodjava.io.LimitedInputStream;
+import goodjava.io.BufferedInputStream;
 
 
 public class LogFile {
@@ -72,10 +74,12 @@
 	}
 
 	public LogInputStream input() throws IOException {
-		byte[] a = new byte[(int)end - 8];
-		raf.seek(8L);
-		raf.readFully(a);
-		return newLogInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(a));
+		InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
+		in = new LimitedInputStream(in,end);
+		in = new BufferedInputStream(in);
+		LogInputStream lis = newLogInputStream(in);
+		lis.readLong();  // skip end
+		return lis;
 	}
 
 	protected LogInputStream newLogInputStream(InputStream in) {