CHAPTER 86 — Reading Binary Files

Recall that binary files are those whose
bytes might hold any possible pattern.
Binary files store
data that has not been translated into character form.
Of course,
a binary file can store character data mixed in with its other data types.
A file that exclusively stores character data is
called a text file.

The subclasses of InputStream
are designed for byte-oriented input from any source.
For use, the source will usually be a file on the hard disk.
But other sources of data can also
be connected to a program as an InputStream.

Chapter Topics:

• Reading binary files.
• Advantages of binary files.
• DataInputSteam
• FileInputSteam
• BufferedInputSteam
• Reading and writing integers.
• Reading and writing single bytes.