RE: New line on FileStream

["Blalock, Bill" <Bill.Blalock@xxxxxxxx>]

Neal:

What Thorbjørn wrote:

> The println methods are located in the PrintStream/PrintWriter wrappers 
> (written from memory).  If you need that functionality you pass the 
> stream as the argument to the PrintStream constructor and you have it.

lead me to ask:  When the line oriented file output of Java on a System i is only for consumption by some PC program could the System property line.separator be changed to \r\n and get the result wanted with println() methods?

Something like:

	String originalLineSeparator = 
		System.setProperty( "line.separator", "\r\n" );

Should work.  See javadoc for PrintWriter.println(), they specifically state that the "line.separator" property is used to terminate the line.

I haven't tried it yet but I will.  I have the same problem viewing my log4j logs written to the IFS and stdout redirected to IFS.  On the PC I used Wordpad and on the System i WRKLNK option 5.   

Bill Blalock

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:24 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: New line on FileStream

Neill Harper skrev:
> Thanks Bill
>
> That explains it, I guess it also explains why the Java Stream objects don't
> have a writeline method? 
>
>   
The println methods are located in the PrintStream/PrintWriter wrappers 
(written from memory).  If you need that functionality you pass the 
stream as the argument to the PrintStream constructor and you have it.

This makes for a very clean design, but it requires a lot of training 
just to KNOW all the classes in the runtime.

--
  Thorbjørn