diff -N SIOVersion.java
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ SIOVersion.java	23 Feb 2009 19:36:39 -0000	1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@

+package org.lcsim.util.lcio;
+
+/** Simple helper class to encode/decode the LCIO version number.
+ *  @author gaede
+ *  @version $Id: SIOVersion.java,v 1.1 2009/02/23 19:36:39 jeremy Exp $
+ */
+public class SIOVersion
+{
+   
+   /** Returns the version encoded in one word.
+    */
+   public static int encode(int major, int minor)
+   {
+      
+      return (major << 16) | ( 0xffff & minor ) ;
+   }
+}