RandomAccessFile weirdness

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From: angus m. fraser
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00

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Hi,

This might be just me not understanding Java properly but...

I'm reading shorts out of a binary file using something like this.

try {
  File f = new File("c:\\pc-cora\\archive\\98040111.edt");
  RandomAccessFile r  = new RandomAccessFile(f, "r");
  r.seek(82);
  short s = r.readShort();
  ...
  }
  
The problem is this is that 'short s' is giving the wrong answer. I've 
checked the 2 bytes being read(using readByte) and they are correct. 

It seems the conversion from 2 chars/bytes to a short(in 
RandomAccessFile.readShort() ) is wrong, at least compared to the 
short(smallint) value properly returned by Delphi.

Anyone shed any light on this?

--
Angus Fraser
afraser@cix.co.uk

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