Here is a code that reads the first line of the text file.

import java.io.*;
class Modify 
{
        public static void main(String[] args) {
                String line = "";
                int lineNo;
                try{
                         FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("c:/emp.txt"); 
                         DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
                         String str="";
                         BufferedReader bfr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); 
                        for (lineNo = 1; lineNo <=10; lineNo++) {
                                if (lineNo == 1) {
                                        line = bfr.readLine();
                                } 
                                str=bfr.readLine();
                        }
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
                System.out.println("Line: " + line);
        }
}

Here is another code that reads the file and moves back to the first line of the file using seek() method of RandomAccessFile class.

 import java.io.*;

public class ReadAccessFile{
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
  try{
      File f=new File("c:/emp.txt");
  RandomAccessFile rand = new RandomAccessFile(f,"r"); 
  int i=(int)rand.length();
  rand.seek(0);
  for(int ct = 0; ct < i; ct++){
  byte b = rand.readByte();
  System.out.print((char)b); 
  }
  rand.seek(0);
  rand.close();
  }
  catch(IOException e)
  {
  System.out.println(e.getMessage());
  }
  }
}

Please don't use DataInputStream to read text. Unfortunately this example gets repeated again and again so can you remove it from your example.