Re: Reading spool file with Java

Thanks all you guys for your replies, and thanks for the code, Phil.

Did I mention that I'm not much of a Java programmer? ;-) However I did
finally manage to get your class compiled and got my guy to call it.
Wow, it does such a good job of stripping everything that there's no
hint of carriage control left. Not a problem for XML data, but I'm
hoping to generate a PDF, so I at least need to know where the lines
end.

Sounds like the most expedient way out of this is to use CPYSPLF as has
been suggested.

I may be back here in a while asking elementary Java questions, like how
I interrogate the first byte of a line I read (I'll probably go the FCFC
route on CPYSPLF) and how I get rid of the first byte and keep the rest
of the line. I'm thinking stringbuffer... Every time I work with this
language I'm amazed at how the simple and complex are reversed. Using
somebody else's jar and a few lines of code I can create a PDF document,
but trying to manipulate simple bits & bytes like I do in every other
language is like pulling teeth.

Thanks again,

-Marty