Read/Write ints using 2bytes

[Lora Tully]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone can help me read and write one interger using two bytes. I have an interger between 500-800 that I need to write. Normally I would use...

OUT.writeByte(int)

But as 500 is above one byte (256) I was wondering how to write this, and then later read it back.
As since one int would be spread over two bytes, I have no idea how to read it, normally I would use

IN.readByte()

And I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone help me please?

[Mike Gershman]

Try DataOutputStream.writeShort() and DataInputStream.readShort()

[Lora Tully]

Thanks that works great!