HunkIO 1.7 build: 9470 released: 2009-05-03

Library to read a file at once.

Copyright: (c) 2012 Canadian Mind Products.

Java class library.
Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#HUNKIO

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labeled non-military use only.
All Java jars and source code are included.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under any OS,
(e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/W7x86/W7-64/OSX/Linux/Solaris/AIX...) so long as you have
<><> Java version 1.1 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java).
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details.

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as a part of your own program.
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the "use folder names" option.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

Use Safari to download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as a part of your own program.
Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5)
[or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)].
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home.
I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility.
In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen.
If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages.

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Rebuilding:

You are pretty much on your own how to use this material.

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Use:

Java classes to include in your own programs.  They let you read or write
a file in one fell swoop into RAM, in one great hunk, with readEntireFile
and writeEntireFile.  It also includes createTempFile method that is more
convenient to use than Sun's File.createTempFile.  It also includes
PrintWriterPlus that converts linefeeds to platform specific line feeds
even when they are embedded in data.

See also the more elaborate filetransfer package
http://mindprod.com/products1.html#FILETRANSFER if your files
are too large to fit entirely in RAM.

Why the three linked ball logo?  It symbolises processing a
file which may have internal structure as a single piece.


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Version History:

 1.3 2005-06-18 add more consistent bat files.

 1.4 2006-01-14 readEntire file now works with multi-byte
                encodings.

 1.5 2006-01-25 readFile/writeFile with non-default
                encoding, raw read/write entire file.

 1.6 2007-05-24 add icon, pad, Intellij inspector.

 1.7 2009-05-03 create PrintWriterPlus vs PrintWriterPortable

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