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Jason:

File I/O is blocked for Applets by design.  You might want to go out
and get a good Java reference (Java in a Nutshell is a good one); 
most give a pretty good idea of what you can and cannot do with
Applets.  Hint;  it's a shorter list if you stick to what Applets are
allowed to do.

An Applet can read a file from the server it resides on, but can only
do so via streams.  You can't create a File object on it because the
File class has stuff hanging off of it that Applets aren't allowed to
do.  Instead you create a URL to the file on the server, open a stream
from the URL and suck down the bytes for processing in the Applet. 
You don't get to write back to the server and you don't get to open or
even sniff at files on the client without jumping through flaming
hoops.

-Rich

Jason C. Leach wrote:
> 
> Well. Deploying an app is a little harder than writing it, for me at
> least. Maybe some people find it the other way arround.
> 
> I suppose I can see why that would cause security problems. Then again,
> if the user is selecting the files, why not?  It would be no different
> than taking the risk of downloading a file (EXE) from the net, and
> running it.  At least if it's a web page you can track the
> applet/server/author down.
> 
> I don't have much luck deploying files. As I am doing this in JDK 1.2 I
> can only emagine what trouble the wizzard would cause me.
> 
> Do you think what I am doing is not going to work in Java or as an
> Applet/JFrame?
> 
>     Thanks, J.
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> 
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> ....Jason C. Leach
> ..."Many Hands Make Light Work."
> ..- Unknown
> 
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Rich Wilkman
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Borland JBuilder Team

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