Same file is different on different OS'es

Question

Hallo,
I am having the following problem. I am reading a file (image, sound, whatever) with the code below, and depending if it runs on windows or different linux versions some bytes are always different when reading the very same file. I really don't know why. Has someone had a similiar problem and knows a solution? Please answer...
public void load(File file){
          try{
               this.fistream=new FileInputStream(file);
               this.distream=new DataInputStream(this.fistream);
          catch(FileNotFoundException ex){ex.printStackTrace();}
          catch(IOException ex){ex.printStackTrace();}
     public int nextChar(){
          try{
          if (distream.available()!=0)
                    return distream.read();
          catch(IOException ex){ex.printStackTrace();}
return -1;
Thanks a lot
Max

Answer 1

Homer_Sanchez wrote:
I'm doing following. I want to create a "random" byte sequence from an arbitrary file. This sequence should be same everytime it's created from the same file. But this isn't the case this way. Windows XP gives different results than for example mandrake linux. Everything that's already been said still holds.
So in essence this means, I don't need any binary data. What? This makes no sense. I have no idea what you're talking about here, but it seems to contradict everything you've said so far.
The name nextChar() was just a name. It shouldn't mean anything.No, it should clearly and concisely describe what the method does. Don't expect others to read your code if you can't make the effort to make it make sense.
But does the InputStream method in the code skip carriage-return and line-feed characters? No, it does not. The phrase "carriage-return and line-feed characters" is only meaningful when dealing with line-oriented text data. Read what we already said.