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I'm having problems reading in a two-dimensional array of shorts from
a file.  The file contains an array written out using C++ that looks
like:
   
short array[100][256].  

I can't figure out how to make java read in this array.  I'm using
FileInputStreams read function that looks like:

read(byte[], int offset, int size).

I have an array in Java that is a short like:

short buffer = new short[100][256];

I'm trying to read in the file a row at a time into my short array
like this:

fin.read((byte[])buffer, 0, 512);

This should read in one row of data into my array, but Java won't let
me typecast my short array into a byte array.  

Anyone have any words of advice here, I'm sure I'm doing something
wrong, because I just started using Java and I'm not quite familiar
with it yet.  Thanks in advance for and help.

Shane Warren