public static Record[] createRecords(InputStream in) throws RecordFormatException 
{
                                                                  
        ArrayList records     = new ArrayList(NUM_RECORDS);
        Record    last_record = null;
        int       loc         = 0;
        try
        {
            long  offset  = 0;
            short rectype = 0;
            do
            {
//                System.out.println("you are at offset "+loc);
                rectype = LittleEndian.readShort(in);
                loc     += 2;
                if (rectype != 0)
                {
                    short  recsize = LittleEndian.readShort(in);
                    byte[] data    = new byte[ ( int ) recsize ];
                    in.read(data);
                    loc    += recsize;
//                    System.out.println("TYPE: "
//                                       + Integer.toHexString(rectype));
//                    System.out.println("SIZE: "
//                                       + Integer.toHexString(recsize));
//                    HexDump.dump(data, offset + 4, System.out, 0);
                    offset += 4 + recsize;
                    Record[] recs = createRecord(rectype, recsize,
                                                 data);   // handle MulRK records
                    if (recs.length  > 1)
                    {
                        for (int k = 0; k <  recs.length; k++)
                        {
                            records.add(
                                recs[ k ]);               // these will be number records
                            last_record =
                                recs[ k ];                // do to keep the algorythm homogenous...you can't
                        }                                 // actually continue a number record anyhow.
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Record record = recs[ 0 ];
                        if (record != null)
                        {
                            if (rectype == ContinueRecord.sid)
                            {
                                if (last_record == null)
                                {
                                    throw new RecordFormatException(
                                        "First record is a ContinueRecord??");
                                }
                                last_record.processContinueRecord(data);
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                last_record = record;
                                records.add(record);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            while (rectype != 0);
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            throw new RecordFormatException("Error reading bytes");
        }
        Record[] retval = new Record[ records.size() ];
        retval = ( Record [] ) records.toArray(retval);
        return retval;
}

Create an array of records from an input stream