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diff --git a/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java b/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java
index 91acb5d..21838c5 100644
--- a/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java
+++ b/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java
@@ -41,16 +41,22 @@ package java.io;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import gnu.java.nio.FileChannelImpl;
-/**
- * @author Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
- * @date September 25, 1998
- */
-
/* Written using "Java Class Libraries", 2nd edition, ISBN 0-201-31002-3
* "The Java Language Specification", ISBN 0-201-63451-1
* Status: Believe complete and correct to 1.1.
*/
+/**
+ * This class allows reading and writing of files at random locations.
+ * Most Java I/O classes are either pure sequential input or output. This
+ * class fulfills the need to be able to read the bytes of a file in an
+ * arbitrary order. In addition, this class implements the
+ * <code>DataInput</code> and <code>DataOutput</code> interfaces to allow
+ * the reading and writing of Java primitives.
+ *
+ * @author Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com>
+ * @author Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
+ */
public class RandomAccessFile implements DataOutput, DataInput
{