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Q's on File access API's in Pre-Beta

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Beck)
Fri Sep 22 22:18:31 1995

Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 16:44 PDT
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Bob Beck <rbk@ibeam.jf.intel.com>

In browsing the pre-beta API pages, it looks like some of the issues I've
had with alpha3 haven't been addressed:

        1) No way to delete a file
        2) RandomAccessFile doesn't have a getFD() method (FileInputStream
does, though)
        3) There doesn't appear to be any API for locking files or portions
of files

If these are there, please let me know (I'm running on NT, thus can't use
the pre-beta).  If these aren't there, when will they (or some such support)
- it'll be hard to argue general purpose programs can be written in Java
without these.

Thanks.
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