Hallo!
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, noisebrain wrote:
> (forgive me since this is mostly off topic, though the answer
> might possibly be specific to the operating system.)
>
> I want to write a little java app to copy a url and its relative links.
> The url itself is a text html file; some of the links may be binary
> files such as .jpg, .ps.gz, etc.
>
> My question: can you copy a binary file such as a .jpg using a *Reader,
> rather than a Stream? Each byte will then be represented with
> a 16bit char, but will writing with a corresponding Writer preserve the
> data?
>
> Generally the top-level url should be read using a Reader,
> but I believe it will be difficult to tell if the links are binary
> or html without reading them (and even then... some html does not
> start with the <html> tag. Thus, the easy/general way to do it would
> be to just open every file with a Reader, thus my question.
The Writer shouldn't change something, as far as I remember, what the
Reader read, but I am not sure what will happen if You come across a file
that is *not* 16 bit-aligned.
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Bye...
Andreas Kopecki Benutzerberater
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