New command line option to skip first bytes of the file to analyze

[GoogleCodeExporter]

First of all thanks a lot for this tool, it has been very useful to me for 
analyzing serialized data from memory dumps.

I was attempting to use it in conjunction with the Eclipse Memory Analyzer but 
it seems that this tool has a strange way of saving serialized byte arrays to a 
binary file. For some reason there is an extra bytes before the serialized 
data. 

I managed to get around it by using "dd" to remove the first byte but I thought 
it would be great if there was a command line option to directly skip a few 
bytes at the beginning of the file, so I patched jdeserialize for this and I'm 
submitting the following patch to you. I hope it's acceptable. Let me know if 
you need anything else. 

I'll also be submitting a bug fix because I had a NPE with a file I was 
analyzing, I will create a separate ticket for this.

Best regards,
  Serge Huber.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by shu...@jahia.com on 15 Jul 2013 at 8:02

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• Add_skip_first_bytes_option.patch