Writing a binary short out to a buffer

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From: Robert J. Muller
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:00

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I'm converting an elderly C program to Java, and one function writes  a
message into a buffer preceded by a header containing two short integers
in the first four bytes of the file (pardon the globals):

char gbuffer[8192];

void write(char *message, short len, short b) {

memcpy(gbuffer, (char*)&len, 2);
memcpy(&gbuffer[2], (char*)&b, 2);
memcpy(&gbuffer[4], message, len+1);
}

Can anyone tell me how to get the first four bytes of a byte[] to look
like this given two shorts?

  --Bob Muller

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