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James:

Sorry, I must have missed that part.  You probably already know the
answer as to why it's not built in.  Having written file i/o stuff on
a few different platforms I can tell you that there isn't a standard
way to do it (though it may look standard from the API level,
underneath is what counts).

Rename is easy -- you don't need access to the file, just to it's name
stub.

I know you don't want system calls, but if you have open access in
your application it's a pretty finite list of commands.  The biggest
weakness from system calls is that you don't get a useful return
value.

-Rich

Maybe someday...

James D. Frentress wrote:
> 
> Rich Wilkman wrote:
> 
> > Try Runtime.exec("c:\command.com /c copy file1 file2")
> >
> 
> That's what I meant by "...make a System shell call...". It's just not
> portable. As I told Andrew, I just can't figure out why there is a
> File.renameTo() but no File.copyTo().
> 
> Thanks Rich,
> 
> Jim

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