LEDataStream 1.8 build: 9639 released: 2007-05-24 compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 little Endian read/write. Copyright: (c) 1998-2017 Canadian Mind Products. Java class library. Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#LEDATASTREAM ---- Notes: You must install the Java JDK to use this program. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jdk.html You are pretty much on your own how to use this material. This program requires a manual install! See below. I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from anyone. What's happening? Does it all just work fine? It is so complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it? It is it useful? Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the programs to their liking themselves? Did you have trouble installing? Do I presume you know too much? I would be happy to hear from you about your experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements. A one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great. ===> 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 labelled non-military use only. http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html All Java jars and source code are included. If you need the class files or Javadoc, you will have to build them yourself. To streamline the zip downloads, class files and Javadoc have been removed. ---- Prerequisites: This program runs under any OS that supports Java, (e.g.W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W2008/W7-32/W7-64/W8-32/W8-64/Linux/LinuxARM/LinuxX86 /LinuxX64/Ubuntu/Solaris/SolarisSPARC/SolarisSPARC64/SolarisX86/SolarisX64/OSX/AIX...) so long as you have <><> Java version 1.8 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java). See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details. ---- Installing on a PC: Download source and compiled jar 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 <span class="click">use folder names</span> option. ---- Installing on a MacIntosh: Use Safari to download source and compiled jar 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. ---- Rebuilding: You are pretty much on your own how to use this material. ---- Use: LeDataStrteam consists of Little-endian replacements for DataInputStream, DataOutputStream and RandomAccessFile you can use in your own Java programs. They cannot be run standalone. They work just like DataInputStream, DataOutputStream and RandomAccessFile except they work with little-endian binary data. Normally Java binary I/O is done with big-endian data, with the most significant byte of an integer or float first. Intel and Windows 95 tend to work with little endian data in native files. LEDataInputStream, LEDataOutputStream and LERandomAccessFile will let you read and write such files. Source code provided. I repeat, LeDataStream is code you insert into your own Java programs. It is not a stand-alone utility. You need basic Java programming skills to use it. It lives in package com.mindprod.ledatastream so its *.java files would live in com\mindprod\ledatastream in the same source code tree as your own code. You would treat the LeDataStream *.java files just as if you had written the code yourself. e.g. import com.mindprod.ledatastream.LEDataInputStream; The java.nio (new I/O) package that is new with JDK1.4 has ByteBuffer and friends that support big and little endian. That way you don't need LEDataStream. LEDataStream is considerably simpler, howewer. Note that LEDatastream.read(byte b[], int off, int len) is exactly the same as DataStream.read((byte b[], int off, int len). With bytes, there is no difference between big and little endian data. LEDatastream.read does NOT reverse the order of the bytes read! For background see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/endian.html Why the egg icon? In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, two countries fought over which end of the end was best to break it, the little or big end, mirroring the struggle between the users of little and big endian binary formats. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/endian.html ---- Version History: 1.0 1998-01-06 1.1 1998-01-07 officially implements DataInput 1.2 1998-01-09 add LERandomAccessFile 1.3 1998-08-27 1.4 1998-11-10 add new address and phone. 1.5 1999-10-08 use com.mindprod.ledatastream package name. 1.6 2005-06-13 made readLine deprecated 1.7 2007-01-01 1.8 2007-05-24 add pad, icon, pass Intellij inspector. -30-