Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: I/O Confusion Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Your Company Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: Yzqi07giy+IXRagYOPUEUQ.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 111026-1, 2011-10-26), Outbound message Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9217 Roedy Green wrote in news:q8bga7t82f28hbv1a267ikoafm9qfq2mhm@4ax.com: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:12:04 +0000 (UTC), Novice > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >>I'm try to wrap my head around the basic I/O classes, especially how to >>choose the one I need for a given job. > > I wrote an applet to generate code for any given I/O task. Watch what > it does, and you can see which classes are used in which > circumstances. It does not yet do nio. > > see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/applet/fileio.html Thanks Roedy - and the others who replied to my question! - for your answers. I'll mull over the information and get back to you with a new thread if I have further questions. I think you've got me going in the right direction now. -- Novice