Re: This should be ridiculously simple, but....

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

31 Jan 2007 21:58:36 -0800

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On Feb 1, 11:21 am, "Hal Rosser" <hmros...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

"Oliver Wong" <o...@castortech.com> wrote in message

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"furby" <Wookie...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I need to write a java application that can open a connection to a PDF
file and copy it to the hard drive.

I *think* the way to do this is with a
"DataInputStream"/"DataOutputStream" process, but even if I convert
everything to byte format, the resulting copied files will not open in
Adobe Reader....

Can anyone help me? Has anyone don't this type of thing before?

Did you tryhttp://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0064.html?

Take a look at the Runtime class in the API.
Caveat: You may lose portability of your application to other platforms.

Are you suggesting the OP use system commands
to *copy* *files*? Note the question was not how
to *open* a PDF file, but simply how to make a
byte-for-byte copy of a PDF file (that the default
reader is capable of opening).

As an aside, why did you tack your post on the
end of Oliver's reply? It seemed you had nothing
to say about anything he wrote.

Andrew T.