Opening .exe file in Java

[Ganesh Prakhya]

Hi All,

I need to open an .exe file using Java. I don't want to run that exe with Java, but I need to open the .exe using Java (to see the binary). I am able to open .exe in EditPlus tool, the same content I want to see in Java console when I run the Java programme.

Please suggest me a way to do that.

NOTE: We should not use readLine() method, as I tried with that, it is not giving right binary content and also causing continuous beep.

Thanks in advance,
Ganesh.

[Ulf Dittmer]

You can't use BufferedReader - it's for text streams, not binary data, as you found out. Use BufferedInputStream instead to read into a byte array.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Moving to "I/O and Streams."