Re: FileOutputStream append issue

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:33:06 GMT
Message-ID:
<mPYmh.10407$X72.1006@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>
Dustin wrote:

Daniel

Thank you for your reply. The thing is that I cannot submit this exact
code; it is proprietary.

The example I gave though is basically all I am doing. I am taking two
files and make them byte[]. I then try to write these to a
FileOutputStream. I do the creation of the byte[] before creating the
FOS because I am trying to write them back to the destination of the
first file.

I hope this helps.
Dustin


Unfortunately, "basically all I am doing" does not usually work. The
details that seem insignificant, or are even totally invisible, to the
programmer are exactly the details where bugs lurk.

Producing a self-contained example is an important debug step, even if
you are not using a newsgroup. If the problem really is where you think
it is, you should be able to work up your code snippets into a running,
but failing, example program in a few minutes. If it isn't, you need to
know that.

It is quite likely that you will find the bug yourself in the course of
producing the example. However, once you have a short failing program
you can always edit identifiers to disguise what you are really doing
and post the result.

Patricia

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